Re: the Exchange 2007 fix

[Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com>]

>>>>> "RS" == Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

   RS> On Thu, Apr 03 2008, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
   >>>> FWIW, Exchange announces itself:
   >>>> 
   >>>> * OK The Microsoft Exchange IMAP4 service is ready."
   >>>> 
   >>>> so we could have specific fixes for it predicated on that,
   >>>> rather than user-controlled variables (and the user could
   >>>> override the auto-detection, naturally).  I don't relish the
   >>>> idea, but it's certainly better than leaving a large percentage
   >>>> of Gnus users out in the cold.
   >> 
   SJ> Maybe you could implement some logic that would set the newly
   SJ> introduced imap-enable-exchange-bug-workaround based on the
   SJ> server greeting?
   >> 
   >> I am not sure if Exchange-specific handling should be on or off by
   >> default.  The user will be able to override it the other way, but
   >> the base default is a bit of a philosophical question and
   >> therefore must take up more discussion time than a technical issue
   >> :)

   RS> The subject say that the problem is only with Exchange 2007.  If
   RS> older versions don't require it, we should probably not enable it
   RS> just because of the Exchange server greeting (which doesn't tell
   RS> the version).

I can vouch for the fact that Exchange 5.5 worked like a charm.  It's
amazing how badly MickySoft broke things when it released Exchange 2007.

I can also vouch for the fact that the patches contained in the latest
release of imap.el and nnimap.el go a very long way towards addressing
the issues.  We're not quite there but we're edging ever close.

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