[Dovecot] Also - is there a reliable way for TB to know it is connecting to a dovecot server?

[Charles Marcus]

On 2010-02-03 5:14 PM, John Chapman <jdchapman at dupontregistry.com>
wrote:
> On 4.2.2010, at 0.14, Charles Marcus wrote:
> 
>> This would be so it could auto-disable GLODA - its new 'Global Search
>> and Indexing' scheme - for that account - assuming they accept (and
>> implement) my bug request to be able to do that:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=544100

> Well, your bug report kind of assumes that all Dovecot servers
> would have server-side full text search indexes, but in reality very
> few have them enabled.

Yeah, I didn't word my request very good... I meant of course if
there was a reliable way for TB to detect it is connecting to a DC
server that had full text search capability enabled...

I was thinking (hoping) that the IMAP CAPABILITY command could be
leveraged to make this determination. From the responses both here
on the enhancement request I'm guessing the answer is no, or at
least 'not reliably' - obviously not something that could be done
'automatically'?

But I'd still like to pursue an enhancement to TB that would make
this work if manually enabled, so...

> That would require using Solr or Squat. And there's currently no
> client-visible way to know if those are enabled.

Could DC add that to its CAPABILITY response? Or would that be
breaking the RFCs?

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Best regards,

Charles