On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:54:10 +0100 (CET), Vadim Zeitlin wrote: > But how can I know that the server is Courier? I don't see any way to > retrieve the server greeting from cclient, is there one (then I'd be able > to close the connection and reopen it with this flag automatically without > user internvention)? Could you please also mention briefly how is cclient > behaviour modified if this flag is given?
My comment was only half-serious. There is some (albeit minimal) hope that the author of Courier will finally decide to play ball with the rest of the IMAP community, instead of trying to force the rest of the IMAP community to comply with his misinterpretation of IMAP. I recommend the use of "/loser" as a manual user setting, to be used only when the application has problems with a particular server implementation that are traced to implementation defects on the server. What /loser does will change over time; as problems are discovered more /loser workaround will be added. I strongly recommend *AGAINST* any attempt to test for a particular server by name; that is absolutely the wrong way to build clients. When I become aware of any client that tries to test for UW imapd in that way, I will see to it that the next version of UW imapd breaks that test.
