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3 | magnus | 1 | prayer for Debian |
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4 | The Debian version of Prayer is built with SSL support with session |
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5 | cache using libdb4.3, gzip Content-Transfer-Encoding, LDAP, and System |
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6 | V mutex support. Some bigger and some smaller changes have been made: |
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8 | * As the upstream web page explains, "Prayer was designed to work |
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9 | with the Washington IMAP server, which has the most problems |
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10 | associated with transient IMAP connections. Consequently, the user |
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11 | interface distinguishes between mailboxes and directories: this will |
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12 | not work well with servers which provide dual use mail folders." |
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13 | A simple patch from Jonathan McDowell at least makes leaf folders |
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14 | be treated as folders. |
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16 | * This packaging adds IPv6 support. However, prayer-session uses |
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17 | libc-client to connect to the IMAP server, and IPv6 support can only |
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18 | be achieved there by building with the version of libc-client |
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19 | currently in experimental. |
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21 | * This packaging adds international character support, including |
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22 | encoding and decoding of modified-UTF-7-encoded folder |
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23 | names. However, the folder filter still works on the UTF-7 level, |
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24 | meaning, for example, that a "-" will match any folder with an |
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25 | encoded character in it, since "-" is the shift-out character that |
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26 | ends every base64-encoded sequence in UTF-7. |
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28 | Where it was hardwired to ISO-8859-1 it has been re-wired to UTF-8, |
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29 | but I may have missed some spots and ISO-8859-1 is still the hardcoded |
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30 | fallback character set. |
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32 | * The decoding of RFC2047 encoded words has been relaxed, accommodating |
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33 | to some common encoding errors: spaces are accepted in the encoded |
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34 | text, as are overlong encoded words. |
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37 | Quirks: |
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39 | * If your IMAP server supports STARTTLS, then Prayer (actually the |
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40 | libc-client IMAP client library) will use it automatically and it |
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41 | can't be turned off. Make sure that the server name you specify for |
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42 | imapd_server in prayer.cf matches the Common Name in the SSL |
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43 | certificate; otherwise libc-client will refuse to accept it. |
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45 | * If your IMAP server is Dovecot, then you must change |
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46 | prefs_folder_name to something not containing a dot. Unfortunately |
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47 | this means that the preference folder will be fully visible. |
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49 | -- Magnus Holmgren <magnus@kibibyte.se>, Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:51:00 +0100 |
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51 | Tag: interface::web, made-of::lang:c, made-of::data:html mail::imap, mail::user-agent, protocol::imap, protocol::ssl, protocol::http, role::sw:server, use::viewing, works-with::mail, web::application |