Re: Workaround iCloud IMAP Bug (add CAPABILITY request post-login)

[Oswald B. <osw...@gm...>]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 12:21:19PM +0100, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote:
>Sadly the banner of imap.mail.me.com:993 changed.
>
damn. mind posting the current -Dn output of the auth sequence?

>You could just target all IPv4 addresses in 17.0.0.0/8.
>
that seems suboptimal, as there are certainly other mail servers in that 
network as well. the workaround wouldn't cause harm (except a bit more 
latency), but it seems messy nonetheless.

>I appreciate that options are a burden, but might it not be possible in 
>principle to generalise the feature, e.g. by letting the user just 
>specify arbitrary commands to execute pre- and post- login? Anyone 
>using such a feature would have to have a good reason to do that.
>
i pondered making the workaround configurable in the first place, but 
the problem is so obscure that hardly anyone would actually try it.

a hook system like you propose is entirely out of the question - making 
it actually flexible enough to cover yet unknown cases would be 
unreasonably complex to code and maintain, and anything but user 
friendly.