Re: Disable capability UTF8 USER

Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Aug 2024 20:29:09 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.imap.courier.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Bertrand COTTENET via courier-users writes:

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> Hi all,
>
>
> We updated our mail server to debian 12 with latest courier packages  
> (courier-pop 1.0.16-3+b6)
> I see some new capabilities now implemented in courier-pop (in my case RFC  
> 6856 UTF8 and UTF8 USER)
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>
> But I have an issue with the famous microsoft mail tool : outlook.
> If I understand the RFC, UTF8 (with no argument) is related to mails , and  
> MUST be called after authentication.
> If UTF8 take the USER argument, then the capability is related to  
> authentication ONLY and should be called BEFORE LOGIN and PASS .
>
>
> However, Outlook, when connecting tp courier-pop, sends CAPA, the LOGIN, then  
> PASS, then UTF8.
> courier-pop answers with -ERR
>
>
> Is a way to disable UTF8 capability in courier-pop ? Maybe I misunderstood  
> the RFC ? Or should I set some other options to have Outlook working with  
> courier-pop ?
>
>
> I tried several others mail tools, the issue is only with Outlook.

The current version of Courier is 1.3.11. A workaround for this Outlook bug  
was released in 2018.

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