2.3 to 2.4 Murder upgrade

Dave McMurtrie dave64 at andrew.cmu.edu
Thu Dec 8 15:24:45 EST 2011


On 12/08/2011 03:20 PM, Andrew Morgan wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Dec 2011, Bron Gondwana wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 10:00:26AM -0800, Andrew Morgan wrote:
>>> So, I tried adding all the new 2.4 capabilities to the
>>> suppress_capabilities setting. I found that if I added URLAUTH=BINARY to
>>> suppress_capabilities, I was unable to establish an IMAP connection
>>> to the
>>> frontend. imtest didn't print any output, and proxyd on the frontend was
>>> spinning at 100% cpu. If I remove URLAUTH=BINARY from
>>> suppress_capabilities, leaving all the other new capabilities
>>> suppressed,
>>> it works fine. I'm not sure if this is a bug... Let me know if I should
>>> file it as a bug.
>>
>> Meep - sorry, it's a bug. Fixed on master. I really REALLY
>> need to take some time fixing stable.
>>
>>> suppress_capabilities: ESEARCH LIST-EXTENDED QRESYNC WITHIN XLIST
>>> ENABLE SORT=DISPLAY
>>>
>>> The imapd.conf manpage says I only need:
>>>
>>> suppress_capabilities: ESEARCH QRESYNC WITHIN XLIST LIST-EXTENDED
>>>
>>> if I have 2.3 murder backends. Is that correct, or should I suppress the
>>> new ENABLE and SORT=DISPLAY too?
>>
>> Probably should suppress SORT=DISPLAY. That's even newer than the
>> imapd.conf docs! I think ENABLE is OK, because clients are expected
>> to handle NO responses.
>
> Okay. Is there any harm not suppressing URLAUTH=BINARY? :)

I'm not aware of any clients that use it, so it probably doesn't matter 
if it's offered as a capability.


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