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

Timo Sirainen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 27.11.2012, at 12.02, Bron Gondwana wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012, at 02:48 AM, Michael M Slusarz wrote:
>> Quoting Brandon Long <[email protected]>:
>> Not sure how you are supposed to do this on IMAP servers that don't  
>> support ID.  Or don't send version information: Dovecot, for one,  
>> doesn't by default.  Or for installations that use a version of your  
>> software released before a particular IMAP server even breaks (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.

BTW. I've added tests for this and several other new extensions to imaptest. I haven't tried running them against anything other than Dovecot so far. The biggest missing test is NOTIFY.

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