both under Win2k and Linux (RH 7.1).  

  I have a patch to test for mail rendering. With the patch applied,
I found IMAPS (secure IMAP) connection to my school IMAPS server (via
port 993: UW IMAPd version?) didn't work. Although my patch doesn't
touch anything at all in IMAP/IMAPS related code, I removed my patch
and compiled again. That didn't change a thing. I had exactly the same
problem on both platforms. 

  Given this, one may think there's a bug or issue with either Mozilla
or a particular version of IMAPS server running on my mail server.
However, both m 0.9.8 and recent nightly builds work fine with my
mail server.

  At this point, it occurred to me that optimization vs debugging
build might have to do with this strange phenomenon. So, under Win2k,
I turned off debugging and built an optimized build.  To my dismay,
nothing changed.

  As the last resort, I tried to connect to my imap server via 
non-secure protocol (i.e IMAP: port 143 as opposed to IMAPS: port 993).
Voila... My build worked !

  Well, this doesn't solve my problem, though. How on earth do
binaries built at netscape work fine with IMAPS and my mail server while
my builds (with presumably identical sources) don't work ?

  On Linux, differences in compiler version and library  may lead to
this, but under Win2k (I'm using VC++ 6), it's less likely, isn't it?

  Has any one had a similar experience?  Any illuminating idea
would be appreciated.

  Jungshik Shin

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