[Dovecot] Capability problems dovecot 2.0

[Timo Sirainen]

On May 27, 2009, at 2:22 AM, reg9009 wrote:

> In my opinion, dovecot should give capabilities, regardless if  
> before or after login sequence. What would be the problem of it or  
> why would it be intented to be removed. It would actually just break  
> with a rather common client and change behaviour to all previous  
> versions.

The problem is that the capabilities depend on what plugins are  
loaded. It's also possible to have different plugins loaded for   
different users, so the capability reply might depend on the user  
logging in. So in such setups there's no way to give the correct  
capability before the username is known. Even without that problem the  
way to get the list of capabilities from plugins is pretty horrible  
code and if there's a way to get rid of it I'd like that.