[Dovecot] Timeout during APPEND

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 06:56 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> [2011.06.13.1623 +0200]:
> > It could, and Dovecot does that for several commands. But I'm a bit
> > afraid of adding such code for APPEND, because it could easily break
> > some clients. I know an old version of Evolution broke if it got any
> > extra data during APPEND.
> 
> Couldn't the client signal to the server that it wants/expects such
> data, and only then does dovecot send such pings?

Good luck getting any client to implement something like that.