Re: the Exchange 2007 fix

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:37:07 +0200 Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote: 

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 older
RS> versions don't require it, we should probably not enable it just
RS> because of the Exchange server greeting (which doesn't tell the
RS> version).

OK.  In that case I'll leave things as they are right now.

Thanks
Ted