Is it possible to disable pipelining in imapc?
Aki Tuomi
aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi
Mon Sep 11 16:17:18 EEST 2017
On 11.09.2017 16:14, Nagy, Attila wrote:
> On 09/11/2017 03:01 PM, Aki Tuomi wrote:
>> On 11.09.2017 15:56, Nagy, Attila wrote:
>>> On 09/11/2017 12:12 PM, Aki Tuomi wrote:
>>>> Is there some reason you can't use normal proxy instead of imap
>>>> backend?
>>>> That is,return proxy, host=imap_backend, port=1430? There seems to
>>>> be no
>>>> pipeline setting currently for imapc in v2.2.
>>>>
>>> Yes, because it's a dumb IMAP server, which doesn't implement a lot of
>>> things, like SEARCH, FETCH BODYSTRUCTURE and similar.
>>> Dovecot is used as a smart proxy, which makes it possible to use it as
>>> a fully featured IMAP server.
>> Does the dumb server advertize pipelining?
>>
> Exactly how does an IMAP server advertise pipelining other than it
> says it's an IMAP server? :)
> There is no such capability, extension etc. It's in RFC3501, which
> defines IMAP v4r1.
>
> Dovecot has a proxy_nopipelining setting for its IMAP proxy, I just
> want to use that (ie: no pipelining) with imapc too. Whether it's
> dynamically configurable, even with the existing proxy_nopipelining,
> or with an imapc_features flag, it doesn't matter for me.
>
> Of course, setting this per user would be nicer.
There currently is no such feature. Guess such feature could be added at
some point.
Aki
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