Re: Unable to access an Imap server with TLS support

[Bruno Miguel <brunoalexandremiguel gmail com>]

Thank you for your answer.
I will contact the team behind this email server. The server, as far as I 
know, is still in an experimental stage.

Peace;
Bruno Miguel

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Pawel Salek wrote:

> 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
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