From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/66674 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: the Exchange 2007 fix Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:37:07 +0200 Message-ID: References: <86wsnmvrmx.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87zlsdurjm.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> <86zlsc5oud.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87prt8b9an.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> <86ej9n3wxl.fsf@lifelogs.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 1207251696 29119 80.91.229.12 (3 Apr 2008 19:41:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 19:41:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nathanw@mit.edu (Nathan J. Williams), Michael Harnois , ding@gnus.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: ding-owner+M15158@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Apr 03 21:42:08 2008 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 1JhVJp-0005Pe-31 for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:41:53 +0200 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 1JhVId-0006fP-DO; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:40:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JhVIc-0006fE-9H for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:40:38 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JhVIV-000480-IE for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:40:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.1.11]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1JhVIe-0002fy-00 for ; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:40:40 +0200 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.41.37]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m33JeRvE023121; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 21:40:27 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from localhost (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.41.37]) by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCD8D1C618; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 21:40:26 +0200 (CEST) X-Face: mtjf/D:es1T0wHO:&CJ'ZXe"l;3C--rw\z!{`eFwL){|]RpI+4{u25L=5C /0>KuGeTsk<~<&NE-AKV1560e!+RJeyWmSskkrJm?[vUV#66{T_m|Ae<||Ku#Mk5`y&O`n~z2;n8eP J5#2h@2eQgV@E70IY_0WlEx!"&giy{+\%h1LJox$zv@/l%ZmU4^tZA>xQpnkUBVC5.jpg#0'(+2?Rs )NAr:>3<=WxHE$ktbLysDIM5TbmHu*3, nathanw@MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams), "Michael Harnois" , ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <86ej9n3wxl.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:11:34 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-DCC-SIHOPE-DCC-3-Metrics: poseidon 1085; Body=4 Fuz1=4 Fuz2=4 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:66674 Archived-At: 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. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/