Re: Unable to access an Imap server with TLS support

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 09/02/2008 10:57:55 PM, Bruno Miguel wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I've configured balsa to access an Imap server that supports TLS.
> This works fine with Evolution and Alpine, but the Balsa's latest
> stable version cant access the server when TLS support is enabled or
> configured to see if the support exists. The same for the latest svn
> version.
>
> I've debugged the sessions, with and without TLS support. The output
> follows under attachment.

The problem is the imap server you use does not follow IMAP standard as  
defined in RFC3501. It's response to CAPABILITY command includes  
"[imapproxy04]" but the standard says the CAPABILITY response consists  
of a series of atoms, which must not contain ']' character. Balsa  
encounters ']' and gets confused.

I am not sure what to do. No, I am sure about one thing: the author of  
the imap proxy service should be contacted and asked to fix his/her  
software. I am not sure what balsa can do about it. We could always try  
to recover by ignoring all the characters up to the end of the line but  
this is definitely a workaround only...

Pawel