Re: [Imap-protocol] Is it okay/common for servers to i gnore commands sent before the greeting? (gmail seems to?)

Jan Kundrát <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Friday, 7 March 2014 16:05:48 CEST, Andrew Sutherland wrote:
> We're seeing a problem in the Firefox OS Gaia e-mail app where 
> if we manage to send our "A1 CAPABILITY" request to the gmail 
> IMAP server (initial-TLS imaps/993) before it sends its 
> greeting, it acts like it never hears the request.  Our 
> not-so-clever state machine hangs until the connection times 
> out.

Interesting. What my client is doing is patiently waiting for the initial 
response and checking whether the capability list is passed in there as a 
response code. The same for the tagged OK for the STARTTLS.

I am wondering whether you are deliberately trading bandwidth for latency, 
and whether you have some measurements showing that sending the CAPABILITY 
speculatively is beneficial. This is something which I haven't thought 
about, and if you have already measured this, I would like to, er, "be 
isnpired" :) and do it this way as well.

With kind regards,
Jan

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Trojitá, a fast Qt IMAP e-mail client -- http://trojita.flaska.net/
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