Re: [Evolution] CAPA command

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 10:30, Ti Leggett wrote:
> I recently received an email from an admin of one of my mail accounts
> saying that his POP server's logs showed some errors about CAPA commands
> and that my client (that being evolution) was one of these generating
> errors. My question: what is CAPA and how can i shut it off?

CAPA is the POP3 extension command for finding out about non-standard
capabilities of POP servers. Eg:

    Connected to peabody.ximian.com.
    +OK Hello there.
    CAPA
    +OK Here's what I can do:
    TOP
    USER
    LOGIN-DELAY 10
    PIPELINING
    UIDL
    IMPLEMENTATION Courier Mail Server
    .

Older POP servers don't implement it, but it shouldn't hurt anything.
The server just returns "-ERR" instead of "+OK" and Evolution assumes it
doesn't implement any extensions. There's no way to make it not send the
command.

-- Dan