Re: the Exchange 2007 fix

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

On Thu, Apr 03 2008, Ted Zlatanov wrote:

>>> 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.
>
> SJ> Maybe you could implement some logic that would set the newly
> SJ> introduced imap-enable-exchange-bug-workaround based on the
> SJ> server greeting?
>
> I am not sure if Exchange-specific handling should be on or off by
> default.  The user will be able to override it the other way, but
> the base default is a bit of a philosophical question and therefore
> must take up more discussion time than a technical issue :)

The subject say that the problem is only with Exchange 2007.  If older
versions don't require it, we should probably not enable it just
because of the Exchange server greeting (which doesn't tell the
version).

Bye, Reiner.
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