[Dovecot] aha! (was apple mail vs. v0.99)

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:36:16AM -0500, sean finney wrote:
> hello!
> 
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:08:39PM +0200, dovecot-request at dovecot.org wrote:
> > From: "Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski" <D.Mierzejewski at icm.edu.pl>
> > 
> > According to RFC3501 (is this the right one?), NOOP can be used to check
> > for new mail, but it doesn't say that the server should return status
> > data every time NOOP is issued.
> 
> i think the problem is that when the server asynchronously reports to
> the client that there's new mail apple mail gets confused.  then noop
> doesn't report new mail.  also, it seems that this is also the cause
> of apple mail having to re-download the entire mailbox every time
> it checks for new mail.

Well, then it's broken and should be fixed. I don't think Timo should be
required to implement hacks to work around broken clients, but that's his
call.

Regards,
-- 
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann*at*icm.edu.pl>
Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling
Warsaw University  |  http://www.icm.edu.pl  |  tel. +48 (22) 5540810