[imp] imp cvs login/folders problem/patch

[Graeme Wood]

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Michael M Slusarz wrote:

> Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:
>
> > Quoting Graeme Wood <Graeme.Wood at ed.ac.uk>:
> >
> >> OK so what doesn't it do
> >
> > Provide any namespace information.
>
> ...and provide capability information.  And provide charset capability
> information for the IMAP server's search command.  As discussed by the
> other devs, there is no way to get this information via the imap_*()
> functions.
>
> An imap_raw() function would be great as a stopgap, although I have no
> idea whether this idea is feasible or not.  As long as we could get
> the server return values, we could figure this stuff out.
>
> >> and how is the problem of GSSAPI authenticated IMAP connections to
> >> be solved?
> >
> > By a user like you submitting the code to make it work.
>
> You will find nobody who believes more than me that the IMAP_Client::
> library is nothing more than a hack around stuff that can (and should)
> be done by the c-client stuff.  But the reason I decided to waste 2
> weeks of my summer in reinventing the wheel is as follows:
> 1) my c knowledge, which back in the day was sketchy at best, is now
> 0.  so patches to the php c-client code by me was out
> 2) even if someone added a patch to the c-client code to add the above
> functionality, it would still need to be added to the php tree, would
> have no guarantees of stability for a period of time, and then need to
> make it into a release version of PHP.  Then IMP would need to release
> a new version that required this brand new version of PHP - which
> would pretty much make 99% of the admins that currently use IMP go
> crazy.
> 3) i (and other devs) were wasting *way* too much of our times
> providing support for people who didn't read the documentation/faqs
> about the 'namespace' and 'folders' parameters.
>
> Long way of saying that, even if c-client stuff is ever done, an
> interim PHP solution was needed.  And its not as if I truly
> "reinvented the wheel" - I stole (sorry - I mean borrowed :) ) most of
> the code from squirrelmail.

Thanks Michael. The problem sounds even more intractable than I first
feared.  Is there any way that the code for automatic detection of this
stuff could fail silently and fallback to defaults set in the
configuration? If so, what defaults need to be set and what is the format
of them?  I think the namespace setting should be possible, though when I
tried this with mimp it failed to detect folders, so I must have got
something wrong.

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