MBOX-Line: From dave at cridland.net  Tue May 22 07:56:49 2007
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:39 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] IMAP ID Extension
In-Reply-To: <46530072.1020500@aol.com>
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Message-ID: <5253.1179845809.680684@peirce.dave.cridland.net>

On Tue May 22 15:38:42 2007, John Snow wrote:
> Are there any clients that issue the ID command?  I would like to 
> gather statistics on client usage.

Mine does, but the chances of anyone using it are pretty slim, and 
besides which, it only does it if the user tries getting the 
properties of the mail store.

>   If not the ID command, is there another way to get client 
> information?

You could try a fingerprinting technique, I suppose - I'm pretty sure 
that nearly every client (or at least, IMAP library) out there uses 
slightly different techniques. I've never looked at doing that, but 
I'd have thought it'd be possible.

Dave.
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