Re: the Exchange 2007 fix

[Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:41:17 +0200 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> 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.

Maybe you could implement some logic that would set the newly introduced
imap-enable-exchange-bug-workaround based on the server greeting?

/Simon