From: Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use IMAP MOVE extension if available
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2015 10:28:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871tfjnetc.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k2tbyc6a.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Tue, 04 Aug 2015 11:17:49 +0800")
On Aug 04 2015, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
> Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> writes:
>
>> On Aug 03 2015, Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>:
>>>
>>>> I believe that Gnus has to re-login now and then, e.g. when connections
>>>> are idle for too long.
>>>
>>> Ok, that may be a case for optimization: the CAPABILITIES may change
>>> before and after login, but it is not very likely that they will change
>>> for the rest of the session.
>>>
>>> Ie. issue CAPABILITIES only after the initial login.
>>
>> Preserving capabilities from one connection to the next would require
>> some major coding effort. In that case we're still better of trying very
>> hard to extract the capabilities from the LOGIN response.
>
> I'd say we ought to leave it the way it is now, until we've got a better
> parser for command responses.
I hope with "the way it is now", you mean with either your or my patch
applied?
Without them, capabilities are not detected at all in many cases. I
think fixing that should not wait until the response parser is fixed.
Best,
-Nikolaus
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-04 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-16 0:29 Nikolaus Rath
2015-07-16 9:00 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-07-20 9:53 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-07-20 16:18 ` Nikolaus Rath
2015-07-27 4:36 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-07-27 16:10 ` Nikolaus Rath
2015-08-02 5:56 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-08-02 23:36 ` Nikolaus Rath
2015-08-03 0:40 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-08-03 1:08 ` Dan Christensen
2015-08-03 8:17 ` Steinar Bang
2015-08-03 17:18 ` Nikolaus Rath
2015-08-04 3:17 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-08-04 17:28 ` Nikolaus Rath [this message]
2015-08-05 1:53 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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2015-05-25 19:59 Nikolaus Rath
2015-07-07 2:59 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-07-07 3:05 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-07-09 2:13 ` Nikolaus Rath
2015-07-09 2:18 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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