From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68107 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: IMAP and Exchange 2007 Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:39:15 +0100 Message-ID: <87wsd5cz2k.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> References: <764p0ar5a9.fsf@dev-d01.ppllc.com> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231448030 11862 80.91.229.12 (8 Jan 2009 20:53:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 20:53:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Jake Colman Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16552@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jan 08 21:55:00 2009 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 1LL1hB-0005eQ-Po for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:41:38 +0100 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 1LL1f3-000097-Tq; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:39:25 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LL1f2-00008m-Ei for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:39:24 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LL1ez-0006Iy-Ek for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:39:24 -0600 Original-Received: from mail.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.1.11]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1LL1fF-0003F1-00 for ; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:39:37 +0100 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.10.175]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n08KdI6h021518; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 21:39:18 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C8CC13556; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 21:39:18 +0100 (CET) X-Face: 1;h7XMU[7l}$T@J.D}5z*w8Tg'}B5ArAWc8>2X~otB;kOjKs8X%|hTC#dG:%Vpx")x7S/`v :VXU#fZW$X$zdhEU.RfVQ@<-m9IuN{Hm"fW{,5]6kR'M*vEs+{5Cj!L(JTRzA$(},?5J=sm;%Od, ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <764p0ar5a9.fsf@dev-d01.ppllc.com> (Jake Colman's message of "Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:49:02 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-DCC-INFN-TO-Metrics: poseidon 1233; Body=2 Fuz1=2 Fuz2=2 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68107 Archived-At: 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. ,----[ 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. `---- Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/