[Dovecot] SELECT/EXAMINE don't report URLMECH

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon May 6 17:43:03 EEST 2013


On 30.4.2013, at 2.25, Mike Abbott <michael.abbott at apple.com> wrote:

> In dovecot-2.2.1 neither the SELECT nor the EXAMINE commands include an untagged URLMECH reply.  (Note, this is not the one mandated by the RESETKEY command.)
> 
> AFAICT RFC 4467 does not require an URLMECH reply to SELECT or EXAMINE but without it clients have no way of knowing about authorization mechanisms other than INTERNAL.  Now I know dovecot-2.2 supports only the INTERNAL mechanism at present so this is probably harmless, but still I think it's worthwhile to ask:  Is the absence of the URLMECH reply intentional or an oversight?

I think I'll leave it out unless some day another mechanism is added:
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/lemonade/current/msg05127.html



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