Re: Unicode (remote) mailbox names

ಚಿರಾಗ್ ನಟರಾಜ್ <[email protected]> Wed, 2 Jan 2019 10:07:59 -0500
Newsgroups	gmane.mail.fetchmail.user
Message-ID	<20190102150759.GA31@chiraag>
On 02/01/19 11:18, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Am 02.01.19 um 04:31 schrieb ಚಿರಾಗ್ ನಟರಾಜ್:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > So I am bilingual and speak both Kannada and English fluently. I decided to switch my Google account over to Kannada just for fun and realized that it broke my fetchmail setup. After some investigation, I found out that the remote mailbox name had changed from "[Gmail]/All Mail" to "[Gmail]/ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಮೇಲ್". However, changing the name in my .fetchmailrc didn't fix the issue. The exact output I got when running fetchmail in verbose mode is given here:
> >
> > --------
> > fetchmail: starting fetchmail 6.4.0.beta4 daemon
> > fetchmail: 6.4.0.beta4 querying imap.gmail.com (protocol IMAP) at : poll started
> > Trying to connect to 209.85.201.109/993...connected.
> > fetchmail: Loaded OpenSSL library 0x1010101f newer than headers 0x1010008f, trying to continue.
> > fetchmail: Server certificate:
> > fetchmail: Issuer Organization: Google Trust Services
> > fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: Google Internet Authority G3
> > fetchmail: Subject CommonName: imap.gmail.com
> > fetchmail: Subject Alternative Name: imap.gmail.com
> > fetchmail: imap.gmail.com key fingerprint: 0F:BD:6E:EF:72:5F:46:75:CE:06:CF:5C:8C:3B:D2:AB
> > fetchmail: SSL/TLS: using protocol TLSv1.2, cipher ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305, 256/256 secret/processed bits
> > fetchmail: IMAP< * OK Gimap ready for requests from 64.20.43.202 c23mb659673737qtq
> > fetchmail: IMAP> A0001 CAPABILITY
> > fetchmail: IMAP< * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UNSELECT IDLE NAMESPACE QUOTA ID XLIST CHILDREN X-GM-EXT-1 XYZZY SASL-IR AUTH=XOAUTH2 AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=PLAIN-CLIENTTOKEN AUTH=OAUTHBEARER AUTH=XOAUTH
> > fetchmail: IMAP< A0001 OK Thats all she wrote! c23mb659673737qtq
> > fetchmail: IMAP> A0002 LOGIN "chiraag.nataraj" *
> > fetchmail: IMAP< * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UNSELECT IDLE NAMESPACE QUOTA ID XLIST CHILDREN X-GM-EXT-1 UIDPLUS COMPRESS=DEFLATE ENABLE MOVE CONDSTORE ESEARCH UTF8=ACCEPT LIST-EXTENDED LIST-STATUS LITERAL- SPECIAL-USE APPENDLIMIT=35651584
> > fetchmail: IMAP< A0002 OK [email protected] authenticated (Success)
> > fetchmail: IMAP> A0003 SELECT "[Gmail]/ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಮೇಲ್"
> > fetchmail: IMAP< A0003 BAD Could not parse command
> > fetchmail: mailbox selection failed
> > fetchmail: IMAP> A0004 LOGOUT
> > fetchmail: IMAP< * BYE LOGOUT Requested
> > fetchmail: IMAP< A0004 OK 73 good day (Success)
> > fetchmail: client/server synchronization error while fetching from [email protected]
> > fetchmail: 6.4.0.beta4 querying imap.gmail.com (protocol IMAP) at : poll completed
> > fetchmail: Query status=7 (ERROR)
> > --------
> >
> > The configuration I am using is given here:
> >
> > --------
> > set postmaster "chiraag"
> > set bouncemail
> > set no spambounce
> > set softbounce
> > set properties ""
> > poll imap.gmail.com with proto IMAP
> >        user 'chiraag.nataraj' there with password 'supersecretpassword' is 'chiraag' here
> >        options keep ssl sslproto "TLS1+" mda "getmail_maildir $HOME/Mail/Gmail/"
> >   folder "[Gmail]/ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಮೇಲ್"
> > --------
> >
> > Am I missing something or does fetchmail not (currently) support Unicode mailbox names?
> >
> Hello Chiraag,
> 
> you are right, fetchmail does not currently transcode mailbox names to
> the modified UTF-7 format that IMAP requires for mailbox names per
> RFC3501 chapter 5.1.3, <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501#page-19>
> 
> Does it work if you specify
> 
> folder "[Gmail]/&DI4MsgzNDLIMvg- &DK4MxwyyDM0-"
> 
> ? (I hope my gnome-terminal and Thunderbird and clipboard haven't messed
> up my copy and paste and that I haven't made a mistake translating the
> mailbox name to modified UTF-7)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Matthias Andree
>
Hi Matthias,

Thank you so much, the solution worked beautifully and my fetchmail is (once again) downloading my emails!

Sincerely,

Chiraag
-- 
ಚಿರಾಗ್ ನಟರಾಜ್
Graduate Student at Brown University
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 610-350-6329
Website: http://chiraag.nataraj.us

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