Re: Detecting server type

On 30 May 2006, at 05:03, Matt Ronge wrote:

> Is there a way to detect what kind of IMAP server is being run? I  
> am using multiple threads and I have multiple connections open, on  
> the servers I've tested so for it's been working great, with the  
> exception of UW-IMAP. Is there a way that I can detect that it's UW- 
> IMAP and scale back to one connection?
>
> Are there any other servers that multiple connections won't work?

UW-IMAP will accept only one connection per mailbox.
I don't know much other servers that have this behavior.
Maybe you should not rely on the fact that the server will accept  
several connections per mailbox.
In etpanX, I use one connection for each mailbox and I will use some  
kind of scheduler for commands to send to the connection. That will  
implies obviously some delay for some commands.

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