[Dovecot] RFC 3501 section 7
Jose Celestino
japc at co.sapo.pt
Wed May 27 22:48:28 EEST 2009
On Qua, 2009-05-27 at 12:27 -0700, Scott Haneda wrote:
> 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.
>
That's because Timo does a hell of a good job of fixing things, in the
case those that Apple gets wrong.
Take this for instance:
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/4407b7265afd
It brought some people here to tears for not being able to use Mail.app
but Timo promptly got a workaround (dunno about the bug he opened on
Apple at the time though).
> 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?
>
Guess so, from what I said.
-- Jose Celestino SAPO.pt::Systems http://www.sapo.pt
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