MBOX-Line: From gilles.lamiral at laposte.net  Tue Mar 24 16:05:10 2015
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Gilles LAMIRAL <gilles.lamiral@laposte.net>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:54 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] Is OpenEmailSurvey open to share method or code?
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Dear Joshua,

> I don't know what options you're talking about, but it's worth pointing out the Thunderbird autoconfiguration project
> (<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Thunderbird/Autoconfiguration>).

I'll have a look at Thunderbird/Autoconfiguration,
even if I go crazy when I configure a new account with Thunderbird,
it is always irrelevant for what I do, the manual way is first hidden,
maybe presented at the end or after a failure, a headache each time.

I won't start searching the imap hostname from the user login parameter.
I'll start by guessing server software name from the imap responses,
not from a third party scan, and from hard coded rules if possible.

> If IMAP ID is supported, that is a useful command to use.

A server that replied well to ID would have already announced itself
in the first banner. So, for my purpose, ID looks useful when useless.

But thanks to mention ID, I'll add it in imapsync, this way Gmail
and Outlook.com  will be able to know easily how many transfers are made
by imapsync each day (not difficult without ID anyway).


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