From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/70559 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: That newfangled IMAP thing... Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:51:29 +1000 Message-ID: <87r5h7o7ge.fsf@rimspace.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283745194 25638 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2010 03:53:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 03:53:14 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M18934@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Sep 06 05:53:13 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsSlc-0002ro-6Z for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:53:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OsSki-0007fZ-KD; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:52:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OsSkf-0007fA-KS for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:52:13 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OsSkS-0004gK-5Z for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:52:13 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1OsSkR-0004Yf-00 for ; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:51:59 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsSkQ-0002Tx-FG for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:51:58 +0200 Original-Received: from sdcarl02.strategicdata.com.au ([203.214.67.82]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:51:58 +0200 Original-Received: from daniel by sdcarl02.strategicdata.com.au with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:51:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sdcarl02.strategicdata.com.au User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nny+ZGc2YrAkevsDW9r5mLR7qMk= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:70559 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > >> Is that normal? > > Could someone explain to me what all the utf-7 stuff around the IMAP > code is? Is IMAP defined as being in utf-7? Yes. Originally, it wasn't particularly Unicode, so UTF-7 encoding was added to transport the mailbox names safely. > That's like "er, what" just there... > Anyway, the problems I'm having is that this takes forever: > (encode-coding-string "hei" 'utf-7) Works for me on 23.2.1, I fear. Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman ✉ daniel@rimspace.net ☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons