Mark Crispin wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Ken Murchison wrote:
> > But given the number of protocol bugs that we have seen
> > (and remain unfixed), I would question whether the specs are consulted
> > regularly or interop testing is done with non-Microsoft products. There
> > are plenty of ways that the SMTP GSSPI bug could have been
> > avoided.
>
> There are two more bugs which MS has long acknowledged, remain
> unfixed, and continue to cause subtantial problems:
> . OE does not exit an IDLE before the 30 minute server timeout
> . SSPI's maximum SSL payload size is 5 bytes too small (this bug is
> apparently fixed in Win2K, but remains unfixed in WinXP)
I know it is a little late, off topic, and probably not to the correct
people, but there are two more OE bugs which have been acknowledged but not
fixed:
- If you start a reply to a message and change the folder before you send
it, OE send the flag update command to the new folder which either marks the
wrong message as replied to, or no message at all.
- The more annoying one: If OE is configured to sync headers only and it
learns about a new message, and then you try to download the body it gives
you an error and cross the message out. The only way to get OE to see the
message is to clear the local cache and re-connect. This is really bad
since the point of doing headers only is to keep traffic to a minimum and
then you have to download everything all over again. (The only servers OE
doesn't have this problem with is ones that support the IDLE extension, and
the only one of those I have seen is Exchange.)
Both of these problems are in both OE 5.5 and OE 6.0, and I suspect older
version as well.
I have reported it to MS and they have tested and confirmed both of them but
nothing has been done. Is there any chance somebody can get word to the
correct people to get these things fixed? I can't imagine that fixing
either of these problem would be very comlicated or time consuming..
Thanks,
Michael
