IMAP LIST command

["Andrew C. Oliver" <an...@superlinksoftware.com>]

(oops I sent this to the wrong newsgroup)

Hi Jamesers....(jamesies?) --

In my quest to get my mailserver up and running I've stumbled upon 
james.... nice....thanks.

However, it looks like its a few parsecs short of an imap server and I 
find that kind of thing kinda fun.  Anyhow, I was trying to work my way 
through the unit tests... unit tests are good....

I noticed these things (please correct me or add input):

1. Test Suite
   a. James's testsuite needs a little work, the simple string matching 
requires some hand editing for things like *servername* and other such 
things.  Some method of setting/passing parameters seems to be in order.
   b. Secondly, in some tests the server response may be in a different 
order and that may be okay.  The RFC seems to say "do it fast" in a few 
instances rather than "make sure you do it like this"...  The test 
language should be able to say "*whatever order happens to be*".
   c. Third, some of the code (at least in the case of the IMAP server) 
seems a bit redundant or unnecessarily complicated for calling the test 
scripts, there may be a really good reason for this, but it seems like 
there doesn't need to be so many classes, maybe just a parameter file 
that defines the order for the scripts...

2. LIST/LSUB/etc
   a. On my system LIST command seems to fail the unit tests.  At first 
glance it looked like either JAMES was returning the response in the 
wrong order, or the test was in the wrong order, however, the RFC (2060) 
seems to say "return it as quick as possible" (which seems to argue 
against sorting/ordering).  Am I reading this correctly or does the 
order basically not matter?  (in which case it goes back to enhancing 
the test suite)

Thoughts?

-Andy



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Re: IMAP LIST command

[Vincent Keunen <vi...@manex.be>]

Andrew C. Oliver wrote:

>(oops I sent this to the wrong newsgroup)
>
>Hi Jamesers....(jamesies?) --
>
>In my quest to get my mailserver up and running I've stumbled upon 
>james.... nice....thanks.
>
>However, it looks like its a few parsecs short of an imap server and I 
>find that kind of thing kinda fun.  
>

Hi Andrew,

IMAP development has been stopped for some time but has regained 
interest recently, thanks to several new developers.  So keep your 
comments coming, and don't hesitate to submit code.


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