Re: [Evolution-hackers] [PATCH] handle "Unimplemented" NNTP DATE responses

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

This looks a reasonable workaround for such broken servers.

In future, patches should go to the evolution-patches list, and should contain changelogs, but no need to worry for this one, i'll commit it shortly.

Thanks,
 Michael

On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 19:58 +0200, Alessandro Decina wrote:
> Hello,
>
> since it is the first time I look at evolution, I am posting this little
> patch here, so that it could be eventually reviewed.
>
> This small patch fixes the camel nntp provider to handle properly
> newsservers that do not support the DATE command.
>
> The nntp_get_date function is used to update the date of the last news
> list, to use the NEWGROUPS command to fetch new newsgroups when
> required.
>
> Some (small) newsservers (such as SN) do not support the DATE command.
> This patch makes the provider download the complete list of newsgroups
> when DATE is unimplemented (the same behaviour already implemented when
> the NEWGROUPS command is unavailable).