Re: [Imap-protocol] Re: Suspend/Restore feature proposal

Michael M Slusarz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.general
Message-ID <20121127124811.Horde.VuMexjqX6lKpL2uX-qPgPw2@bigworm.curecanti.org>
Quoting Bron Gondwana <[email protected]>:

> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012, at 02:48 AM, Michael M Slusarz wrote:
>> (full
>> disclosure: the recent Cyrus break is weird because it sent a BYE and
>> terminated instead of a failed command, so that wasn't previously
>> scanned for so we weren't catching this until recently. so we're not
>> perfect either.).
>
> I'm kinda embarassed about this one!  I forgot to put the GUID calculation
> call in the APPEND BINARY path, because nothing ever tested it and it
> appeared nobody was using it, because we didn't have a single complaint or
> failure with it until just a few weeks ago.

There's probably some deeper (sad) IMAP implementation story to be  
learned here.  RFC 3516 was published April 2003, and 9 years later  
we're the first one to ever use literal8's in an APPEND?

michael

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