[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0.rc3 Capability response

[Charles Marcus]

Christian Affolter wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have a question regarding the IMAP CAPABILITY command behavior of
> Dovecot 2.0.rc3.
> 
> While connecting to a Dovecot 1.2.4 server and requesting the supported
> capabilities, Dovecot returns all capabilities:

Timo's last response to this - and there have been a few others since
this changes made (yes, it was intentional, and yes, per user
capabilities are a future possibility):

On 2010-04-07 9:38 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> This is pretty much intentional, because v1.x used to do horrible
> horrible things to get the capability line. I was hoping to avoid that
> in v2.0. This works for the most commonly used IMAP clients, so I don't
> think I'm going to change this. It's time to get the clients fixed
> instead. :) Besides, it's possible to support per-user capabilities, and
> presenting capabilities before login makes this impossible.
> 
> Dovecot v2.0 presents capabilities in two possible ways, depending on if
> client sent a CAPABILITY command:
> 
> a) the right way (use CAPABILITY imap resp code):
> 
> * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready.
> x login user pass
> x OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS] Logged in
> 
> b) the wrong way (use untagged CAPABILITY), which is required to make it
> work with Outlook etc.:
> 
> * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready.
> a capability
> * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN
> a OK Capability completed.
> b login user pass
> * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS
> b OK Logged in

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Best regards,

Charles