Re: problem in connecting to Exchange 2007 - possible solution?

[Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>]

nathanw@MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams) writes:

> nathanw@MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams) writes:
>
>> Hi. My company's mail server was just moved to MS Exchange 2007, and I
>> quickly ran into the IMAP problem described here:
>>
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64775
>>
>> which is that "FETCH 1,* UID" isn't supported by this server, and it
>> returns with "BAD The specified message set is invalid"
>>
>> Some experimenting later, I found that "FETCH 1 UID" and "FETCH *:*
>> UID" work individually to get the lowest and highest number; "FETCH
>> 1,*:* UID" seems to do the same job as "FETCH 1,* UID". A quick patch
>> followed:
>
> I found two other places where a "FETCH *" needed to be replaced by
> "FETCH *:*" to get things working properly. Patch follows.

We shouldn't apply this so it is enabled by everyone, because it wastes
bandwidth (sometimes by a large factor, bandwidth goes from O(1) to O(n)
where n is the size of the mailbox...).  Maybe you could rewrite this so
that it is only used if some variable is enabled?

/Simon