Chris Brannon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, nginx as a mail proxy looks promising, but it doesn't yet work
> with public-inbox-imapd. Nginx sends the authentication information as
> synchronizing literals [RFC9051, section 4.3].
Oops, yeah... public-inbox-imapd doesn't yet support most uses
of synchronizing literals since it's mostly for read-only stuff
which clients will send in a line-oriented way.
> So the login sequence looks similar to this example lifted from RFC9051
> section 7.6:
>
> C: A001 LOGIN {11}
> S: + Ready for additional command text
> C: FRED FOOBAR {7}
> S: + Ready for additional command text
> C: fat man
> S: A001 OK LOGIN completed
>
> I could potentially look into working up a patch, though my Perl is
> rusty and more than 15 years out of practice.
I would probably adapt the existing HTTP psgi.input logic for
dealing with them. But no worries, I should be able to handle
it. I'd have to support them eventually if I turn lei into a
localhost-only R/W IMAP server.
