MBOX-Line: From brong at fastmail.fm  Tue Mar 24 17:11:55 2015
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:54 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] Is OpenEmailSurvey open to share method or code?
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On Wed, Mar 25, 2015, at 10:47 AM, Andrew Sutherland wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:15 PM, Bron Gondwana
> <brong@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> We like ID commands at FastMail too - we log them and it gives us
>> both an
>>
idea of usage patterns, and the ability to give more accurate bug
reports if we
>>
detect something weird.
>
> And some servers can be downright aggressive about. The Firefox OS
> email app experienced the Coremail IMAP servers at 163.com (and
> presumably all netease-operated servers) doing things like saying "NO"
> to a SELECT with the human-readable string "SELECT The login is not
> safe! Please update your mail client: http://mail.163.com/dashi" when
> we weren't providing a (valid) ID. The NO to the select only happened
> some of the time, but the login would result in an ad for 163.com's
> Android/iOS mail clients being injected into the inbox with apparently
> very limited duplicate suppression. Note that we were using
> initial-TLS on port 993 with then-current Gecko/NSS. Some more details
> at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1105573 for anyone
> interested.

Woah, that's really obnoxious.

Are you certain that it's related to the ID command rather than a
general random percentage of connections advertisement?

Bron.


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