[Dovecot] 0.99.1[12] IMAP problems with Apple Mail.app?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 19:56 +0900, Jim Tittsler wrote:
> Is anyone else having trouble using the Apple OS X Mail.app with a 
> Dovecot IMAP server?

I haven't noticed any problems, but I've been using 1.0-tests for a long
time now.

> With 0.99.11 and 0.99.12 attempting to read certain messages using IMAP 
> or IMAPS seems to put Mail.app into spinning pizza of death mode.  
> Sniffing the connection, it looks like it happens after the client 
> issues a BODY.PEEK[] and the server has responded with the (UID XXXX 
> BODY[] {YYYY}...) and OK Fetch completed.  I've only been able to catch 
> it happening with messages that are either (a) Base64 encoded or (b) 
> those that claim to be multi-part/alternative, but only seem to contain 
> a single part.  The client acts like it has received the message, since 
> if I kill Mail.app and restart it, I am able to read the problem 
> message from its cache.  Is this a Mail.app bug?  Is it something about 
> the way Dovecot is responding to the BODY.PEEK[] in these cases?

If you delete the message from Mail.app cache (~/Library/Mail/..), does
it happen again? Can you send me one such message?

> I haven't gotten 0.99.13rc3 to get past the autotools stage of 
> complaining about AM_ICONV (and a number of AC_ warnings), so I've yet 
> to try it.

You wouldn't have needed auto* stuff if you just ran configure.

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