Re: [binc] Error - is is client or server?

[Kyle Wheeler]

On Tuesday, August  2 at 05:25 PM, quoth Robin Bowes:

I'd like to know if the attached trace shows a server problem or a client bug.

The final few lines are:

2005-08-02 17:14:00.662560500 31078 > RUBY0020 OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT+
 005-08-02 17:14:00.662650500 31078 >  completed
2005-08-02 17:14:00.671333500 31078 < RUBY0021 SORT+
 005-08-02 17:14:00.711680500 31078 <  (DATE) US-ASCII ALL

005-08-02 17:14:00.711857500 31078 > RUBY0021 NO The command "SORT" is unsupported in this state.

Client bug.

SORT is a command that relies on the "SORT" IMAP extension being supported. BincIMAP 1.2.x does not support *ANY* IMAP extensions, as your client would know if it issued the "CAPABILITY" command. For details on the CAPABILITY command, try here: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2060.html

For details on optional IMAP extensions that servers may not necessarily support, try here: http://www.iana.org/assignments/imap4-capabilities I'm not sure if SORT=MODSEQ has become an official RFC or not (I can only find drafts).

There is another problem in that it can't handle "virtual" folders, i.e. IMAP folders that can not store messages but are simply place-holders in the IMAP folder hierachy. Again, I don't know whether this is a client or server problem (most likely client as Outlook and Thunderbird both handle these type of folders correctly.

Client bug, as you suspect.

~Kyle
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