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MBOX-Line: From brong at fastmail.fm Tue Mar 24 16:15:46 2015
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To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
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From: Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>
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Date: Fri Jun 8 12:34:54 2018
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Subject: [Imap-protocol] Is OpenEmailSurvey open to share method or code?
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In-Reply-To: <5511EDA6.7060107@laposte.net>
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References: <55109D4C.2080900@laposte.net> <5510BC3A.9020702@verizon.net>
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<5511EDA6.7060107@laposte.net>
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Message-ID: <1427238946.968483.244801809.1E105795@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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On Wed, Mar 25, 2015, at 10:05 AM, Gilles LAMIRAL wrote:
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> Dear Joshua,
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> > I don't know what options you're talking about, but it's worth pointing out the Thunderbird autoconfiguration project
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> > (<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Thunderbird/Autoconfiguration>).
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> I'll have a look at Thunderbird/Autoconfiguration,
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> even if I go crazy when I configure a new account with Thunderbird,
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> it is always irrelevant for what I do, the manual way is first hidden,
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> maybe presented at the end or after a failure, a headache each time.
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>
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> I won't start searching the imap hostname from the user login parameter.
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> I'll start by guessing server software name from the imap responses,
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> not from a third party scan, and from hard coded rules if possible.
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https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6186 might be your friend too.
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> > If IMAP ID is supported, that is a useful command to use.
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> A server that replied well to ID would have already announced itself
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> in the first banner. So, for my purpose, ID looks useful when useless.
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> But thanks to mention ID, I'll add it in imapsync, this way Gmail
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> and Outlook.com will be able to know easily how many transfers are made
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> by imapsync each day (not difficult without ID anyway).
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We like ID commands at FastMail too - we log them and it gives us both an
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idea of usage patterns, and the ability to give more accurate bug reports if we
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detect something weird.
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Bron.
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--
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Bron Gondwana
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brong@fastmail.fm
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