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- In the course of adding support for the IMAP2bis APPEND command to c-client, I
- discovered that the UW IMAP server didn't properly handle literals from the
- client to the server. Specifically, the `+' response to prompt for more
- output did not get transmitted until after the literal was transmitted.
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- This bug did not show up in the current version of c-client. Client literals
- were only used for passwords in LOGIN and mailbox names in SELECT, and the
- complete command was sent in one chunk instead of waiting for the `+' response
- as the specification says. This was an expedient kludge to handle certain
- bizarre passwords and mailbox names until I implemented it right. Well, I
- implemented it right today.
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- The bug is fixed in the 2.2 distribution of c-client, now available on
- ftp.cac.washington.edu as mail/imap.tar.Z (which is a link to imap-2.2.tar.Z).
- I urge developers to pick up this version as soon as possible, since there
- will be interoperability problems with support for the new APPEND command (as
- well as funny characters in passwords and mailbox names) until the older
- versions of imapd are exterminated.
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- This new version also has the fix for certain base64 conversions outlined by
- Laurence Lundblade in his announcement to the Pine list, as well as the change
- to the IMAP client software to do client literals right. It would probably be
- prudent to hold off on using the new c-client/imap2.c in this new version
- until you have made sure that the new imapd is deployed.
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