Re: IMAP and Exchange 2007

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Thu, Jan 08 2009, Jake Colman wrote:

> There have been numerous posts to this list regarding incompatibilities
> between Gnus/IMAP when connecting to Exchange 2007.  Two of the larger
> issues were:
>
> 1) Unable to retrieve large emails; the emails were simply left in the
>    INBOX.  This issue affected other IMAP clients, too, such as
>    Thunderbird.
>
> 2) Unable to read messages with a MIME attachment.  Instead, an
>    imap-parse error would be displayed.
>
> Both of these issues have been resolved with the latest patches for
> Exchange 2007.

Thanks for the feedback.

> I have not checked whether 'imap-enable-exchange-bug-workaround' is
> still required.

It should be auto-detected on a per-server basis now.  But if you only
use IMAP against Exchange 2007 it won't hurt to set it globally.

,----[ <f1> v imap-enable-exchange-bug-workaround RET ]
| imap-enable-exchange-bug-workaround is a variable defined in `imap.el'.
| Its value is nil
| 
| Documentation:
| Send FETCH UID commands as *:* instead of *.
| 
| When non-nil, use an alternative UIDS form.  Enabling appears to
| be required for some servers (e.g., Microsoft Exchange 2007)
| which otherwise would trigger a response 'BAD The specified
| message set is invalid.'.  We don't unconditionally use this
| form, since this is said to be significantly inefficient.
| 
| This variable is set to t automatically per server if the
| canonical form fails.
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