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Re: [fetchmail]Re: Bug in doing CAPA /w fetchmail-5.9.11?

2002-05-04 09:12:36
Matthias Andree schrieb am Sat, May 04, 2002 at 03:43:20PM +0200:
Birger Toedtmann <birger(_at_)takatukaland(_dot_)de> writes:

If I comment out the "&& strchr(greeting, '<')" line, STLS with the qpopper
works fine, BTW.  So who is repsonsible here:  qpopper for not announcing 
any
"<nfiowd(_at_)8320582340958>" in its greeting or fetchmail for expecting it 
even
if servers could do CAPA/STLS without?

Qpopper configuration. I believe fetchmail only tries CAPA on servers
that are recent enough to announce APOP -- however, as said before, that
assumption breaks on Courier-IMAP, to name only one server (a good one, BTW).

This sounds a bit contradictory.  It is clear that fetchmail tries CAPA only
on APOP servers, but is it right to do so?  I don't see why there is qpopper
to blame for not behaving APOP-like when capable of CAPA.

Maybe this could be modified like "if someone wants STLS [or something else
that requires CAPA], try CAPA, if this does not work out, disconnect".


:: IMPLEMENTATION Qpopper-version-4.0.3

Should be updated, while we're at it, there are security relevant bug
fixes in newer versions.

Yep, I know.  Unfortunately, the sysadmins installed there don't share this
feeling....  =:o


Regards,

Birger