Re: [Imap-protocol] Is OpenEmailSurvey open to share method or code?

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015, at 10:05 AM, Gilles LAMIRAL wrote:
> Dear Joshua,
> 
> > I don't know what options you're talking about, but it's worth pointing out the Thunderbird autoconfiguration project
> > (<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Thunderbird/Autoconfiguration>).
> 
> I'll have a look at Thunderbird/Autoconfiguration,
> even if I go crazy when I configure a new account with Thunderbird,
> it is always irrelevant for what I do, the manual way is first hidden,
> maybe presented at the end or after a failure, a headache each time.
> 
> I won't start searching the imap hostname from the user login parameter.
> I'll start by guessing server software name from the imap responses,
> not from a third party scan, and from hard coded rules if possible.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6186 might be your friend too.

> > If IMAP ID is supported, that is a useful command to use.
> 
> A server that replied well to ID would have already announced itself
> in the first banner. So, for my purpose, ID looks useful when useless.
> 
> But thanks to mention ID, I'll add it in imapsync, this way Gmail
> and Outlook.com  will be able to know easily how many transfers are made
> by imapsync each day (not difficult without ID anyway).

We like ID commands at FastMail too - we log them and it gives us both an
idea of usage patterns, and the ability to give more accurate bug reports if we
detect something weird.

Bron.

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