[Dovecot] v2.0 IMAP Capabilities announcement

[Ed W]

On 21/02/2010 19:33, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 21.2.2010, at 21.16, Thomas Leuxner wrote:
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>> I have an Android Mail App which worked fine with IDLE pushes before (K-9 Mail) under 1.2.10. With 2.0 beta 3 it seems to be looking for an IDLE prompt from the server, otherwise it will disable connection idling (whether this is valid or not).
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>> Setting 'imap_capability = IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID IDLE ENABLE' does the trick, but is it possible to add additional values to the default reply like this?
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> Hmm. That's too bad. I was hoping to avoid sending any unnecessary capabilities before login. Perhaps IDLE could be added there as an exception.
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> Although .. Looks like that's an open source client. Perhaps you could report this as a bug and get them to fix it? Dovecot pushes the updated capabilities after login, the client should pick them up.
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 From memory Outlook Express/Windows Mail requests capabilities before 
login (and never after login)?

Ed W