284146 - unable to subscribe to imap folders with Norwegian characters (iso 8859-1)

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Håkon Løvdal]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041219
Build Identifier: thunderbird-0.9-1.fc3.i386.rpm, Build Host: tweety.build.redhat.com, version 0.9 (20041127)

I have been using a web mail client (http://www.horde.org/imp/ in some version,
not sure exact which) to read/manage my mail, but wanted to try thunderbird. I
was able to subscribe to all of my existing folders I had created earlier except
those containing national characters.

The email server is Exim 4.44, and the imap server present iself as IMAP4rev1
v12.250, which I believe is uw imapd, http://www.washington.edu/imap/


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. right click on account
2. subscribe
3. select folder, for instance "2005_kjøp_og_salg", whose name is crippeled as
"2005_kjp_og_salg"
4. select subscribe, blue V is hooked off
5. select ok

Actual Results:  
The folder is not subscribed to

Expected Results:  
The folder should have been subscribed to

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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