On Qua, 2009-05-27 at 12:27 -0700, Scott Haneda wrote:
Hello, been lurking a while, about to move over to Dovecot soon. I
have a nice test machine up and running. My previous email server
when talking IMAP to Apple Mail, will eventually go "deaf" and new
messages will not make it to the Inbox of Apple Mail Client. A
restart of the desktop application is required.I am told that the reason for this is that my current email server
adheres to RFC 3501, specifically section 7, the second paragraph of
which says: The client MUST be prepared to accept any response at all times.Apparently, Apple Mail is not adhering to that, and my email server is
sending out that type of response. However, I look at this list, for
which I am not entirely sure how accurate the actual test is: http://www.imapwiki.org/ImapTest/ServerStatusIt lists Dovecot as one of only two that are fully compliant IMAP
servers. Congrats on that.My questions are: Does Dovecot in fact support correctly the above mentioned RFC and
subsection? I assume so. That being the case, I have not had issues
in my testing of Dovecot, nor heard reports of Apple Mail and IMAP
having any significant problems.
That's because Timo does a hell of a good job of fixing things, in the case those that Apple gets wrong.
Take this for instance:
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/4407b7265afd
It brought some people here to tears for not being able to use Mail.app but Timo promptly got a workaround (dunno about the bug he opened on Apple at the time though).
How, if that is the case, can Apple Mail and Dovecot work well with
each other, and my current email server is not able to?
Guess so, from what I said.
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