Brian G. Peterson wrote:
Hans Werner Strube wrote:
What about adding some compatibility for pre-rev1 IMAP4 clients which are still around (e.g., CDE dtmail, even in Solaris 10)? Especially, the understanding of command FETCH message (... RFC822.HEADER.LINES (parameters))
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 06:05, Dirk Essl wrote:
Yes, I would appreciate that, I still have some users running dtmail and other 'old' mail clients, therefore I cannot migrate these users to the new system, and they don't want to use any other client...
My general policy is that in some cases, the user is *not* right. An IT department cannot rationally be required to continue to support obsolete applications when there are supported and modern alternatives. Face it, choice of email client for a small subset of your users is not a business critical application that needs to be supported forever like it was some absolutely essential piece of 1960's era COBOL code.
Perhaps it is time to either fix these obsolete mail clients yourself to be compatible with current protocols, or stop supporting them, as their development teams abandoned them long ago. I don't believe obsolete functionality (pre RFC or deprecated IMAP RFC's) belongs in dovecot imap.
Yes, I totally agree with you, but my company does the whole IT support for a quite big non-profit organization, so things are a little bit different here. Officially we don't support those clients but we are advised to give best effort support to unsupported clients (How stupid does this sound? ;-))
And I can really not understand how someone can use dtmail or exmh (Oh, I don't want to flame here) if we have nice applications like Thunderbird or Apple mail...
Regards,
- Brian
kind regards dirk