[Dovecot] "QUOTA" CAPABILITY keyword advertised incorrectly?

Jan Kundrát jkt at gentoo.org
Thu May 11 14:42:40 EEST 2006


Mike Brudenell wrote:
> Unfortunately I've yet to find a mail client that issues a CAPABILITY
> request after authenticating.  Instead all do so upon initial connection
> to the IMAP server (and, correctly, again after subsequently initiating
> a STARTTLS session but before authentication).

Dovecot might want to send an OK response with CAPABILITY Response code
then (like "* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 QUOTA FOO BAR] Capability list").
Smart clients should notice that.

Or just advertise it from the beginning :)

> Not re-querying the CAPABILITY after authentication is correct according
> to the IMAP spec in RFC2060, which says:

It's 3501 now, btw.

Cheers,
-jkt

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