[chandler-users] Chandler doesn't support my POP account

[Grant Baillie]

I'm sorry, I'm not really much of an expert on domain/mail hosting  
solutions. Maybe someone else on the list can help.

I also took a look at the code, since I was wondering about what was  
going on, and I believe that Chandler's attempt to detect whether UIDL  
is supported is not correct. Godaddy's server is a little unusual in  
that it gives an error to the CAPA command from Chandler (which is  
being used to ask if UIDL is supported).

Chandler: CAPA
Server: -ERR authorization first

However, CAPA itself is not a required part of the POP protocol, and  
relying on it is incorrect. It would be better for Chandler just to  
issue the UIDL command, and pop up a dialog if the server indicates an  
error.

--Grant

On 30 Oct, 2008, at 10:35, Alan Cohen wrote:

> Thanks for the feedback.  I guess I could move my domain to a  
> different host that provides email services.  Could you recommend  
> any that would be worth considering?  I'm not a big enough shop to  
> self-host with a fixed IP.
> Alan B. Cohen, CPA
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Grant Baillie <grant at osafoundation.org 
> > wrote:
>
>> UIDL is considered optional(*) for POP servers. The vast majority  
>> of servers written since about 1995 support it, because it reduces  
>> the amount of network traffic clients need to perform to fetch your  
>> new mail. It looks as if godaddy's server is one of the few that  
>> doesn't, unfortunately.
>>
>> I suspect it would be a fair amount of work to get Chandler to work  
>> with such servers, unfortunately.
>>
>> --Grant
>>
>> (*) Section 9 of RFC 1939 <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1939.html>  
>> if anyone is following along at home.
>>
>>
>