[Dovecot] Problem with sieve and german umlauts

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 11:04 +0200, M. Bobkiewicz wrote:
> Dear list,
> I?m running a postfix (2.5.6) / Dovecot (1.1.11) on a Centos 5.2 box. 
> I?ve written a small gui application to simply create Out of Office 
> replys with sieve. The resulting code did work with maildrop without any 
> problems. Now sieve fails when it meets any german umlauts like ä or ü. 
> It just stops compiling the scripts and complains about the missing 
> "};". A simple fix is to just replace the umlauts, but that doesn?t meet 
> the expectations of my users. Is there any escape code I could use or 
> any way to place the mail text outside the script?

Are you giving the characters in UTF-8? I think it should work fine. You
could also try with the new Dovecot v1.2 Sieve plugin and its tools
(e.g. sievec or sieve-test), even if you don't end up using them in
prodution. It might give a better error message.

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