Re: To IMAP or not to IMAP

[Simon Josefsson]

Marcus Frings <iam-est-hora-surgere@despammed.com> writes:

> * Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> wrote:
>
>>>> http://www.extundo.com/gnus-imap/buggy-imap-servers.html
>
>> I think all known major protocol problems with Courier IMAPD was fixed
>> years ago.  Since I don't use Courier myself, I can't update the page
>> until someone can give me some information on which version now work.
>
> I use Courier IMAP (over SSL). Any tests I can do?

Do (setq imap-log t) and wait an hour, or enough to get a fair amount
of data, and look at the lines starting with '* FLAGS', e.g.:

* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)

If some of them contain SPC anywhere except between two flags, then it
is still buggy.  Compare the reported buggy sample:

( \Noinferior)

I suspect this has been fixed long time ago.  If you can find out
which version your server is, I can update the web page.

Thanks.

PS. In any case, I added bug workaround code for this in nnimap, so
even if Courier is still buggy, Gnus shouldn't have a problem with it.