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Rory Molinari <h571pufwjtlf001@sneakemail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I use the fastmail.fm email service, and access my mail through gnus
> using fastmail's IMAP server.  I had some trouble getting it to work at
> first, and finally tracked down the problem to the imap-parse-greeting
> function in imap.el.
>
> Where imap-parse-greeting was expecting to see "* OK", the fastmail.fm
> server produces "SERVER * OK".  The parsing of greetings was failing,
> and gnus interpreted this as a failure to connect to the server.

Are you using some funky proxy or something?  I don't see SERVER when
I connect to it:

[jas@localhost jas]$ telnet fastmail.fm imap
Trying 209.61.183.86...
Connected to fastmail.fm (209.61.183.86).
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK IMAP4 Ready www.fastmail.fm

In any case I'd say a server the returned SERVER * OK foo as a
greeting was quite broken.