[Dovecot] Workaround for evolution?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Nov 22 20:59:05 EET 2010


On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 11:45 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:

> evolution has a bug when it comes to closing and IDLE' connection:
> 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=628515
> 
> evolution does not send a DONE command, and dovecot properly answers
> with an error. evolution ignores this and seems to wait on another
> response.
> 
> Timo, do you think there could be a setting for tolerating missing
> DONEs? Thanks!

Well .. the attached patch should do it, but looks like a lot more code
just to fix a client..

I also tested that Cyrus at least works the same way as Dovecot.
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