[issue5305] imaplib should support international mailbox names

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[issue5305] imaplib should support international mailbox names

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[issue5305] imaplib should support international mailbox names

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[issue5305] imaplib should support international mailbox names

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[issue5305] imaplib should support international mailbox names

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[issue5305] imaplib should support international mailbox names

C Fraire added the comment: >> the twisted imap API is problematic for imaplib because twisted seems to >> expect its arguments to already be Python unicode. >Could you elaborate on this? As far as I can tell, it works fine: I wasn't addressing encode/decode specifically. Both twisted and Plo

[issue5305] imaplib should support international mailbox names

Jesús Cea Avión added the comment: First step is to provide mUTF-7 in Python 3.5. Then we can try to update imaplib. I am specially worried about the points cfraire raises in http://bugs.python.org/issue5305#msg151859. Lets see. -- dependencies: +IMAP4 UTF-7 support __

[issue5305] imaplib should support international mailbox names

Hiroaki Kawai added the comment: >> the twisted imap API is problematic for imaplib because twisted seems to >> expect its arguments to already be Python unicode. > Could you elaborate on this? As far as I can tell, it works fine: twisted imap4-utf-7 seems to be improved in this 2 years. :-)

[issue5305] imaplib should support international mailbox names

Jean-Paul Calderone added the comment: > the twisted imap API is problematic for imaplib because twisted seems to > expect its arguments to already be Python unicode. Could you elaborate on this? As far as I can tell, it works fine: >>> import twisted.mail.imap4 >>> print u"Hello, \N{

[issue5305] imaplib should support international mailbox names

Jesús Cea Avión added the comment: Or a new encoder/decoder in "codecs" module. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

[issue5305] imaplib should support international mailbox names

Jesús Cea Avión added the comment: Point 2 of cfraire message is a big issue. What about leaving this problem to the library user simply providing two helper functions in the module to encode/decode mUTF-7?. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue5305] imaplib should support international mailbox names

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[issue5305] imaplib should support international mailbox names

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[issue5305] imaplib should support international mailbox names

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[issue5305] imaplib should support international mailbox names

C Fraire added the comment: I've used the PloneMailList implementation in another project. It works well to add 'imap4-utf-7' as codec. The twisted imap implementation seems to have been updated to properly support non-printable ASCII, but the twisted imap API is problematic for imaplib beca

[issue5305] imaplib should support international mailbox names

Babak M added the comment: There's a working implementation of this in PloneMailList. http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/mxmImapClient/trunk/imapUTF7.py -- nosy: +BabakM ___ Python tracker

[issue5305] imaplib should support international mailbox names

Александр Цамутали added the comment: So noone is working on this issue ATM? -- nosy: +astsmtl ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-

[issue5305] imaplib should support international mailbox names

Hiroaki Kawai added the comment: twisted's code does not work good for "\t", "\r", "\n", those characters must encoded in modified base64 form according to RFC 3501. -- nosy: +Hiroaki.Kawai ___ Python tracker

[issue5305] imaplib should support international mailbox names

Jean-Paul Calderone added the comment: > UTF-7 already sounds like something horrible for me, but a *modified* > UTF-7 encoding is something a little bit more strange for me. Why not > reusing directly UTF-7. UTF-7 wasn't horrible for its time, but its time has very likely passed. Alas, changi

[issue5305] imaplib should support international mailbox names

STINNER Victor added the comment: > The IMAP4rev1 specification allows for non-ASCII mailbox > names using a modified UTF-7 encoding UTF-7 already sounds like something horrible for me, but a *modified* UTF-7 encoding is something a little bit more strange for me. Why not reusing directly UT

[issue5305] imaplib should support international mailbox names

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: I don't have a good understanding of imaplib; if you think it's appropriate to provide the conversion through two functions, I trust you. ___ Python tracker ___

[issue5305] imaplib should support international mailbox names

Jean-Paul Calderone added the comment: IMAP4 UTF-7 is implemented in Twisted - , . Feel free to re-use any of that code that would be helpful.

[issue5305] imaplib should support international mailbox names

James Henstridge added the comment: I'll have a go at implementing the algorithm. It looks like the modifications to UTF-7 are large enough that you can't do a search and replace on the output of the existing UTF-7 codec, so it'll probably require new code. Would String2Mailbox and Mailbox2Str

[issue5305] imaplib should support international mailbox names

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Can you provide a patch? -- nosy: +loewis ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue5305] imaplib should support international mailbox names

New submission from James Henstridge : The IMAP4rev1 specification allows for non-ASCII mailbox names using a modified UTF-7 encoding (section 5.1.3 of RFC 2060 or 3501). However, the imaplib routines taking a mailbox name just pass the string straight through without any encoding. It would be