Re: Umlauts in IMAP Group names

[Leonidas Tsampros]

Tom Rauchenwald <sehnsucht.nach.unendlichkeit@quantentunnel.de> writes:
> Hi,
>
> i recently switched an account of mine to imap. 
> I can't access some groups on the nnimap-server, and all those groups
> contain an umlaut.
>
> They show up like this in the group buffer:
>
>        *: nnimap+gmx:Gel&APY-scht.d-d
>        *: nnimap+gmx:Gel&APY-scht.d-u-g
>        *: nnimap+gmx:Gel&APY-scht.ruby-talk
>
> but not at all in the server-buffer.
>
> I'm no Gnus-guru, but it looks to me like Gnus does an EXAMINE after the
> LIST command on each folder, and this already fails:
>
> 19:56:53 61 EXAMINE "Gel&-APY-scht"
> 19:56:53 62 EXAMINE "Gel&-APY-scht.d-d"
> 19:56:53 63 EXAMINE "Gel&-APY-scht.ruby-talk"
> 19:56:53 64 EXAMINE "Gel&-APY-scht.d-u-g"
> 19:56:53 65 EXAMINE "Entw&-APw-rfe"
>
> 61 NO Mailbox doesn't exist: Gel&-APY-scht
> 62 NO Mailbox doesn't exist: Gel&-APY-scht.d-d
> 63 NO Mailbox doesn't exist: Gel&-APY-scht.ruby-talk
> 64 NO Mailbox doesn't exist: Gel&-APY-scht.d-u-g
> 65 NO Mailbox doesn't exist: Entw&-APw-rfe
>
> To me it looks like the Group name is UTF7-encoded twice somewhere,
> because evaluating the following gives me "Gelöscht", which is the
> original name of the Group. 
> (utf7-decode (utf7-decode "Gel&-APY-scht" t) t)
>
> Can someone give me a hint where to look next, or a tip what's wrong in
> my configuration? 
>
> Thanks,
> -tom

Hi,

I can see the exact same problem with an imap.gmail.com group that
contains greek characters on them:

  *: nnimap+imap.gmail.com:&A5QDuQOxA7MDwQOxA7wDvAOtA70DsQ-

And obviously, I cannot connect to the group. However the group can be
accessed correctly through the server buffer.

Best Regards,
Leonidas Tsampros