[Dovecot] enabling IMAP SORT and THREAD extensions
Hi all,
The home page of the Dovecot website indicates:
"Supports multiple commonly used IMAP extensions, including SORT, THREAD and IDLE."
However, I cannot find instructions in the Wiki for how to enable these extensions. Can someone tell me how to do this? I will add this info to the Wiki myself if need be.
Thanks.
Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl
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On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 01:02 -0800, Colin Brace wrote:
"Supports multiple commonly used IMAP extensions, including SORT, THREAD and IDLE."
However, I cannot find instructions in the Wiki for how to enable these extensions. Can someone tell me how to do this? I will add this info to the Wiki myself if need be.
They're always enabled, there's nothing you can do about them. Of course, you need some IMAP client (webmail) that actually uses these extensions.
On 02/21/2010 01:32 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
They're always enabled, there's nothing you can do about them. Of course, you need some IMAP client (webmail) that actually uses these extensions.
OK, thanks.
The reason I asked is that in the Squirrelmail docs:
http://www.squirrelmail.org/docs/admin/admin-6.html#ss6.3
it says:
[...]
To find out if the IMAP server supports server-side sorting and threading, telnet to it and ask:
$ telnet imapserver.example.com imap
- OK
1 capability
- CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE AUTH=PLAIN STARTTLS 1 OK CAPABILITY completed
The SORT and THREAD capabilities indicates that this server supports these extensions. Next step is to configure SquirrelMail to use them.
[...]
If telnet into Dovecot on my server, it doesn't explicitly indicate SORT and THREAD capabilities:
$ telnet localhost imap Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'.
- OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready.
Hence my confusion.
-Colin
-- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl
If telnet into Dovecot on my server, it doesn't explicitly indicate SORT and THREAD capabilities:
You did not issue the "1 capability"-command.
If you do so, you will get this (or similar):
root@terra:~# telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'.
- OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] Dovecot ready. 1 capability
- CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS QUOTA STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN 1 OK Capability completed.
which clearly states "SORT" and "THREAD".
best regards,
Anton
Em 21/02/2010 11:51, Colin Brace escreveu:
$ telnet localhost imap Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'.
- OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready.
dovecot do not show ALL its capabilities before the login successfully happens.
try thistelnet localhost imap
. login user@name.com password (after the Logged in) . capability
and search for SORT and THREAD in the new capabilities banner--
Atenciosamente / Sincerily,
Leonardo Rodrigues
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Anton Dollmaier
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Colin Brace
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Leonardo Rodrigues
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Timo Sirainen