From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/66667 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: the Exchange 2007 fix Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:11:34 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <86ej9n3wxl.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <86wsnmvrmx.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87zlsdurjm.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> <86zlsc5oud.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87prt8b9an.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207228193 28936 80.91.229.12 (3 Apr 2008 13:09:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 13:09:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Michael Harnois" , ding@gnus.org To: nathanw@MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M15151@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Apr 03 15:10:22 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 1JhPCl-0001AK-W3 for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:10:12 +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 1JhPC7-00044c-6L; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:09:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JhPC6-00044S-4m for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:09:30 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JhPC0-0000ON-33 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:09:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.blockstar.com ([170.224.69.95]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1JhPC9-0004tT-00 for ; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:09:33 +0200 Original-Received: from tzlatanov-ubuntu-desktop.jumptrading.com (unknown [38.98.147.130]) by mail.blockstar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AFAF7D932F; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 06:15:29 -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: 1:20:080403:nathanw@mit.edu::fhj1ieI+YxaPLjhG:001VdR X-Hashcash: 1:20:080403:mdharnois@gmail.com::0tyV7xIyLj2GdzIp:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000002y68 X-Hashcash: 1:20:080403:ding@gnus.org::1YhdRNfBjvuBTa5H:00008gr8 In-Reply-To: <87prt8b9an.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> (Simon Josefsson's message of "Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:50:24 +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:66667 Archived-At: On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:50:24 +0200 Simon Josefsson wrote: SJ> Ted Zlatanov writes: >> On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:41:17 +0200 Simon Josefsson wrote: >> SJ> So maybe this patch would work better? However, it doesn't take care of SJ> the imap.el problems you mentioned in that thread. Perhaps the SJ> bug-workaround variable should be a imap.el variable rather than a SJ> nnimap.el variable? Hm. >> >> 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 introduced SJ> imap-enable-exchange-bug-workaround based on the 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 :) Ted