Is it possible to disable pipelining in imapc?

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi
Mon Sep 11 10:17:36 EEST 2017



On 08.09.2017 15:29, Nagy, Attila wrote:
> On 09/08/2017 01:53 PM, Aki Tuomi wrote:
>>
>> On 08.09.2017 14:50, Nagy, Attila wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've a broken IMAP server, which doesn't support pipelining and fails
>>> on dovecot's attempt to do this ([C] is dovecot's imapc, [S] is the
>>> IMAP server):
>>>
>>> [C] 24 LOGIN "user" "pass"
>>> [S] 23 OK
>>> [C] 25 SELECT "INBOX"
>>> [C] 23 UID FETCH 2 (INTERNALDATE)
>>> [S] 25 OK
>>> [S] 23 BAD No mailbox selected
>>>
>>> Sadly, fixing the server would be a hard task, turning off pipelining
>>> in dovecot's imapc (which already supports many workarounds for
>>> different servers) could be easy...
>>>
>>> ... except I can see no place to do this in imapc (only in pop3c and
>>> imap proxy, which I guess doesn't apply here).
>>>
>>> If I'm right, may I ask for a knob for such dumb servers?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>> For proxy, use proxy_nopipelining
>>
> Are you sure it works with imapc? I've tried it, and dovecot still
> does the above.

So what are you exactly doing?

Aki


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