[Mailsync-list] Re: imapclient keeps asking for password for every folder

[Tomas P. <tpo...@so...>]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Ganesan R wrote:

>> Jonas, I'm Cc:ing you here since the problem report might ring a bell with
>> you or possbibly you are following libc-client development upstream and
>> know what has happened there, i.e. if the above bug/behaveour/"feature"
>> has been fixed...
>
> My understanding is this is a "feature". According to the comments in 
> the code, some servers misbehave if you switch from HALFOPEN state to 
> FULLOPEN state. Or may be it's the other way around. It's been a while 
> since I last looked at the c-client code :-(.

Thanks for the info.

I've just received an answer from Mark Crispin that amounts to about the 
same information.

Since I need to "downgrade" to halfopen state in order to be able to 
append messages withouth them getting the "Status: O" flag, there seems to 
be no other way to resolve the issue than to ask the user about the 
password in the first place and to cache it afterwards in order to be able 
to provide it to the authentication routine later. Erm - accepting the 
risc to repeat myself - patches will be gladly accepted ;-)

R.Ganesan, since you seem to be digging the code and operation of 
mailsync/c-client - you are very wellcome to get a seat in the mailsync 
boat if you feel like it, by being co-maintainer or getting CVS commit 
rights upstream (I'm certain the same is true for Jonas' c-client 
maintainership, but I won't talk for him here).

Thanks for your help and insight,
*t

PS: Jonas, I'll cut you out of the Cc: loop after this.

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