[Dovecot] RFC 3501 section 7

[Scott Haneda]

Hello, been lurking a while, about to move over to Dovecot soon.  I  
have a nice test machine up and running.  My previous email server  
when talking IMAP to Apple Mail, will eventually go "deaf" and new  
messages will not make it to the Inbox of Apple Mail Client.  A  
restart of the desktop application is required.

I am told that the reason for this is that my current email server  
adheres to RFC 3501, specifically section 7, the second paragraph of  
which says:
    The client MUST be prepared to accept any response at all times.

Apparently, Apple Mail is not adhering to that, and my email server is  
sending out that type of response.  However, I look at this list, for  
which I am not entirely sure how accurate the actual test is:
	http://www.imapwiki.org/ImapTest/ServerStatus

It lists Dovecot as one of only two that are fully compliant IMAP  
servers.  Congrats on that.

My questions are:
Does Dovecot in fact support correctly the above mentioned RFC and  
subsection?  I assume so.  That being the case, I have not had issues  
in my testing of Dovecot, nor heard reports of Apple Mail and IMAP  
having any significant problems.

How, if that is the case, can Apple Mail and Dovecot work well with  
each other, and my current email server is not able to?

My primary reason for moving to Dovecot is to not be burdened by this  
issue, as well as have what I consider to be a more advanced storage  
mechanism for the actual messages.  What I would like to avoid, is  
spending a lot of time migrating thousands of users to a new system,  
to only have them burdened by the same inability to have email come to  
them without an application relaunch.

Thank you for any insight on this.

* I have filed a bug report with Apple, which was accepted.  Their  
system does not allow me to see the status on the report once it has  
been closed.
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