From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/66728 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: the Exchange 2007 fix Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:14:35 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <868wzo82x0.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <86wsnmvrmx.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87zlsdurjm.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> <86zlsc5oud.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87prt8b9an.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> <86ej9n3wxl.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207689163 21908 80.91.229.12 (8 Apr 2008 21:12:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 21:12:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Michael Harnois" , ding@gnus.org To: nathanw@MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M15211@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Apr 08 23:13:15 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JjL7r-0007sY-Cb for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:13:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JjL7C-0001lf-If; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:12:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JjL7B-0001lQ-F1 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:12:25 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JjL75-0000VH-An for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:12:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.blockstar.com ([170.224.69.95]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1JjL7F-0004w5-00 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:12:29 +0200 Original-Received: from tzlatanov-ubuntu-desktop.jumptrading.com (unknown [38.98.147.130]) by mail.blockstar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFDE03E8004; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 14:19:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" X-Hashcash: 1:20:080408:ding@gnus.org::oqqqJtH/lbOixTl5:00001eYI X-Hashcash: 1:20:080408:mdharnois@gmail.com::upMOeTIubV0Loch8:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000007CgI X-Hashcash: 1:20:080408:nathanw@mit.edu::kHShjFbjUGmh5ZNu:002yhm In-Reply-To: (Reiner Steib's message of "Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:37:07 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:66728 Archived-At: On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:37:07 +0200 Reiner Steib 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