Hello.

On 28 February 2013 16:46, Ricardo Mones <[email protected]> wrote:
>> What extra details do you need to send the message apart from From:
>> and To:? That should be perfectly enough to send a message. There's
>> absolutely no reason to refuse sending a message which doesn't have
>> Claws special headers.

>   There's account configurations for things like where to put account's
> sent messages or if messages have to be digitally signed, and more. That
> information cannot be extracted from To or From.

I have just one account here. There's no problem to have some
heuristic or user-configurable rules.

>   That info is required for claws-mail to work properly, and there's no
> reason for the server to remove it.

Why don't other clients do that?

>> >   Anyway the server must not remove headers sent by the client unless
>> > they have invalid data (8-bit data) which is not the case. Which IMAP
>> > server is that which removes client data without warning or error?

>> This is what I have and I have no option to change the server
>> behaviour. No other mail client is affected by this behaviour, so this
>> is a fault of Claws Mail.

>   No, that you can't change the server which is violating the IMAP standards
> doesn't make it a client problem :) The other servers out there had never
> such problem.
>   In any case, you can put your drafts in a local folder instead of server's
> and the problem should be fixed. Of course, this has drawbacks if you use
> different computers.

I'm not speaking about drafts, but the outbound queue. There's no
reason to keep in on the server at all, by the way.

>> >   There's no place in the RFCs (3501/2600) that allows that kind of
>> > server behaviour, so it's either a bug or a stupid feature of that server.
>> > But clearly not a claws-mail bug.
>> >   Since you have changed the title I guess you don't want to close this
>> > report, which has become a feature request in fact, so tagging accordingly.
>> I'd like it to be fixed, however. When the message is still in Drafts,
>> it doesn't have any special headers. There's no reason to refuse to
>> send it, as I said before.

>   Yes, there is, as explained above. If the local folder drafts workaround
> doesn't work for you the only thing I can recommend is to try other mail
> clients in Debian and see if they work better with that ugly server.

I don't want other mail clients! This can be worked around quite
easily, at least for simple configurations.

Also, what about 'remember my choice for this certificate' checkbox?
And urgency hint?

-- 
WBR, Andrew


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