On 08/19/2010 01:43 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 12:48 +0200, Samuel Kvasnica wrote:
This is a very nasty mess. If there are some ancient clients like pine or whatever we used on vt100 in the 90th that need broken LIST command, there should be a workaround setting for that. Hey! I still use pine. With mouse-in-xterm mode enabled it works really nicely on devices with a touch screen, and it makes excellent use of small screens and limited network bandwidth.
Sorry, did not want to start flame-war on pine... I've been using it myself for about 10 years (on POP3). But, nowadays there is no practical use: for local indoor use it is not acceptable due to its attachment handling, missing business/workgroup features like calendar etc. For the outdoor mobile use it is also a problem: most cell phones simply haven't got any ssh terminal but have own IMAP clients.
My message was rather: is it good to stick with broken implementation of server as a default just to support some ancient clients or should we change the default behavior to be consistent and use workaround to support ancient clients ?