Is it possible to disable pipelining in imapc?

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi
Fri Sep 8 14:53:09 EEST 2017



On 08.09.2017 14:50, Nagy, Attila wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've a broken IMAP server, which doesn't support pipelining and fails
> on dovecot's attempt to do this ([C] is dovecot's imapc, [S] is the
> IMAP server):
>
> [C] 24 LOGIN "user" "pass"
> [S] 23 OK
> [C] 25 SELECT "INBOX"
> [C] 23 UID FETCH 2 (INTERNALDATE)
> [S] 25 OK
> [S] 23 BAD No mailbox selected
>
> Sadly, fixing the server would be a hard task, turning off pipelining
> in dovecot's imapc (which already supports many workarounds for
> different servers) could be easy...
>
> ... except I can see no place to do this in imapc (only in pop3c and
> imap proxy, which I guess doesn't apply here).
>
> If I'm right, may I ask for a knob for such dumb servers?
>
> Thanks,

For proxy, use proxy_nopipelining

Aki



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