Foreign Characters in IMAP Folders

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Peter Gutbrod - 28 Dec 2003 13:40 GMT

I know, some say you should not ... but using foreign characters in IMAP
folders works perfectly even cross-application in Outlook/Entourage, Mail,
Mulberry and some others, but not in Eudora 6.

F.e. a folder named and correctly displayed: Entwürfe

in one of the former mentioned clients

shows in Eudora 6 as: Entw&APw-rfe

Anyone knows how to fix this in Eudora?

Well one way is to rename the folder from Eudora. Then the correct foreign
characters are displayed in Eudora, but all the other clients display wrong
characters. That is not a real fix.

Peter Gutbrod

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Kathy Morgan - 30 Dec 2003 22:23 GMT

> I know, some say you should not ... but using foreign characters in IMAP
> folders works perfectly even cross-application in Outlook/Entourage, Mail,
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>
> shows in Eudora 6 as: Entw&APw-rfe

I have no experience with IMAP or foreign character encoding, but some
messages posted here by Torge Anders may be helpful. He has found the
solution to for POP mail accounts and it may also work for IMAP. See
his message ID <1g4toge.1vlek0g11nl43kN@ID-142333.user.uni-berlin.de>
where he describes the solution for exactly this situation. (If the
message is no longer on your server, you should be able to find it on
Google groups, using the search by message ID. The subject was "Finally
found setting to display mail with "umlauts" correctly".)

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Foreign Characters in IMAP Folders