MBOX-Line: From mrc+uw at panda.com  Tue Jun 16 13:00:38 2009
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Mark Crispin <mrc+uw@panda.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:42 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] Changing capabilities
In-Reply-To: <1245181628.21624.808.camel@timo-desktop>
References: <1245181628.21624.808.camel@timo-desktop>
Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.00.0906161258240.4967@hsinghsing.panda.com>

On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Has anyone tested how well clients support catching capabilities after
> login? I was planning on having Dovecot v2.0 send only very minimal
> capabilities before login.

I've done this for a long time with implicit capabilities.

> Note that in b) case it's sending untagged CAPABILITY reply. This seems
> to help a lot of clients.

I don't know if you care, but that would break an IMAP2 client. 
Hopefully, nobody is still using Pine 3.xx ...

-- Mark --

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