[Techtalk] evolution and ipop3d

[k.clair]

No problem if you want to use it.  If it's not too much effort, maybe
you could mask the server names and ips somehow...

So is this something I should try reporting to Ximian as a "bug"?

thanks,
kristina

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 01:14:28AM +0000, /dev/null wrote:
- this is *very* interesting... i have been trying to help my ISP debug 
- some similiar stuff recently...
- would either of you mind if i forwarded this to them?.... they're a nice 
- quiet little one-man gnu/linux based isp in somerset, uk...
- also does anyone have any similiar transcripts from netscape or mozilla? 
- (which i have found similiarly problematic because of its overuse of the 
- QUIT command...)
- 
- m~
- 
- Meredydd Luff wrote:
- > That's officially Ximian's fault - I was looking up the RFC the other day, 
- > and a POP server only *needs* to support the message retrieval and deletion 
- > commands, and though it's not unreasonable to require it to support USER and 
- > PASS authentication methods, your server is behaving completely within spec 
- > there, and Evolution is behaving very antisocially. BAD client!
- > 
- > Beats me how to get it to behave, though... :-(
- > 
- > Meredydd
- > 
- > 
- > On Thursday 07 November 2002 00:21, k.clair wrote:
- > 
- >>Hello,
- >>I'm wondering if there is anyone out there who has a lot of experience
- >>with POP and pop clients. We're using the pop server ipop3d,
- >>and there are some linux
- >>mail clients that aren't able to authenticate properly with it.  The
- >>current client in question is Ximian Evolution (whoops, sorry, I'm not
- >>sure about the version of Evolution, but it is probably the most recent
- >>stable release... if it matters very much I can find out).
- >>The following is a transcript of the dialogue between an Evolution and
- >>the pop server.
- >>thanks in advance for any suggestions,
- >>kristina
- >>-
- >>- 207.008.152.146.09999-207.245.070.094.27021: +OK POP3 pop1.serve.com
- >>- v2001.80 server ready
- >>-
- >>- 207.245.070.094.27021-207.008.152.146.09999: CAPA
- >>-
- >>- 207.008.152.146.09999-207.245.070.094.27021: -ERR Invalid command, try
- >>one - of: USER name, PASS string, APOP name digest, QUIT
- >>-
- >>-
- >>- 207.245.070.094.27021-207.008.152.146.09999: USER testing3
- >>-
- >>- 207.008.152.146.09999-207.245.070.094.27021: +OK User name accepted,
- >>- password please
- >>-
- >>- 207.245.070.094.27021-207.008.152.146.09999: QUIT
- >>-
- >>- 207.008.152.146.09999-207.245.070.094.27021: +OK Sayonara
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