[RELEASE DRAFT] Re: Going on v6.3.4

[Marc MERLIN]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 03:37:56PM +0200, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:06:13 -0700, Marc MERLIN <marc at merlins.org> wrote:
> 
> > Also, would it be possible for the code to issue the IMAP ID command after
> > login to help catalog users and debug problems from the server side if any?
> 
> Hi, I really want to get the current code out, so I wouldn't recommend
> new features before any release either. 
 
That's generally true. While generating an ID line would likely be 2 lines
of code in the right place, that code does not exist yet, so it's a moot
point.

> I don't see much value in issueing an ID command on each login, or is
> there any?  However, would you agree that the ID command would make most

It is requested as a courtesy by imap servers for logs and better client
support.
http://code.google.com/apis/gmail/imap/
'Clients are strongly recommended to announce themselves with the IMAP ID
command (RFC 2971)'

Generally if you tell google or some other imap server "you have problem X
with offlineimap or imaplib", the likely first question back will be "and
how many of those are using my service?"

> sense in the hopefully-to-be-integrated diagnostics mode so we can
> output more information about the server? That would IMHO make
> sense. It could also make sense to issue this when we run offlineimap in
> debug mode. I'll track this as http://trac.sspaeth.de/issue28

That's not what I had in mind.

> Such simple commands can be issued with the current imaplib2 just fine,
> I think. There's something called "xatom" or somesuch that lets us issue
> simple commands. A patch to support this command properly should be
> going into imaplib2 though, if we are supposed to use this, I guess.

I had a quick look at imaplib2 and it has an 'id' command which is already
used by someone else to connect to Yahoo (which I was told actually requires
that id command it seems).

Either way, just so that we agree, I'm not trying to hold up this release or
saying 'offlineimap must support ID', I was just suggesting that it would be
good to add.

Marc
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