[maemo-developers] Modest/TinyMail problems (continue from the blog comments)

[From: Luca Olivetti]

En/na Philip Van Hoof ha escrit:

>> either I couldn't find the option 
>> or it doesn't even allow to select the sort order, neither it can thread 
>> the messages.
> 
> That might be because your IMAP server doesn't support either THREAD nor
> SORT.

sure it does:

$ telnet localhost 143
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK lspro Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.13-Debian-2.2.13-10 server ready
x capability
* CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ MAILBOX-REFERRALS 
NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND 
BINARY SORT THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES ANNOTATEMORE IDLE 
STARTTLS LOGINDISABLED AUTH=CRAM-MD5 AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 SASL-IR
x OK Completed
x logout
* BYE LOGOUT received
x OK Completed


I'm probably too dumb to find those options ;-) (btw, now polymer just 
crashes)

> Dave is making Infotrope (and derived E-mail clients like Polymer and
> Telomer) mostly for testing IMAP servers that he develops at the place
> where he works (at Isode).
> 
> He's mostly interested in top-notch interaction between the client and
> the IMAP server (pipelining and testing them in combination with newer
> Lemonade features).
> 
> Experimentally the client has a lot of value, since it shows how modern
> IMAP usage would outperform any other offering (Blackberry or Windows
> Mobile E-mail clients with Exchange) several times in a row.

I *do* hope he succeed: it would make me very happy if non-standard 
proprietary protocols just disappeared (though many people seem happy 
with their crap^H^H^H^Hblackberries and don't mind giving their 
passwords to a 3rd party and let their mail pass through rim servers).

[...]

>> I'm currently tunneling imap through ssh with compression enabled.
> 
> 
> That's a good temporary solution indeed. Note that your SSL layer might
> already do compression, in which case the SSH tunnel will just add
> latency to your connection.

Yes, my goal was to avoid ssl altogether (I can do that with 
thunderbird) and at the same time not to expose the imap server to the 
internet at large (after all it's my own personal server).
Unfortunately it seems that claws cannot use cram-md5/digest-md5 and 
it's forcing a starttls. Polymer can do cram-md5/digest-md5 but it's 
forcing a starttls anyway.

Bye
-- 
Luca