On Qua, 2009-05-27 at 12:27 -0700, Scott Haneda wrote: > Hello, been lurking a while, about to move over to Dovecot soon. I > have a nice test machine up and running. My previous email server > when talking IMAP to Apple Mail, will eventually go "deaf" and new > messages will not make it to the Inbox of Apple Mail Client. A > restart of the desktop application is required. > > I am told that the reason for this is that my current email server > adheres to RFC 3501, specifically section 7, the second paragraph of > which says: > The client MUST be prepared to accept any response at all times. > > Apparently, Apple Mail is not adhering to that, and my email server is > sending out that type of response. However, I look at this list, for > which I am not entirely sure how accurate the actual test is: > http://www.imapwiki.org/ImapTest/ServerStatus > > It lists Dovecot as one of only two that are fully compliant IMAP > servers. Congrats on that. > > My questions are: > Does Dovecot in fact support correctly the above mentioned RFC and > subsection? I assume so. That being the case, I have not had issues > in my testing of Dovecot, nor heard reports of Apple Mail and IMAP > having any significant problems. >
That's because Timo does a hell of a good job of fixing things, in the case those that Apple gets wrong. Take this for instance: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/4407b7265afd It brought some people here to tears for not being able to use Mail.app but Timo promptly got a workaround (dunno about the bug he opened on Apple at the time though). > How, if that is the case, can Apple Mail and Dovecot work well with > each other, and my current email server is not able to? > Guess so, from what I said. -- Jose Celestino SAPO.pt::Systems http://www.sapo.pt --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Progress (n.): The process through which Usenet has evolved from smart people in front of dumb terminals to dumb people in front of smart terminals.
