Re: Patch: fix for imap_update_summary crash on AOL

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

Yeap, approved.

Very nice José, this is awesome stuff.

Let's test this thoroughly, though!

(With a lot of IMAP servers)


On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 13:16 +0200, José Dapena Paz wrote:
> 	Hi,
> 
> 	This patch adds a workaround for AOL IMAP server bug answering to
> FETCH/SEARCH queries we use to get the list of uid's. When we request a
> range of sequence numbers, the answer returns again all the sequences,
> even the ones we had fetched previoulsly.
> 
> 	With this code we simply ignore the sequence numbers we already have
> fetched. This is enough to avoid the summary corruption we were getting
> using AOL.
> 
> Changelog entry:
> * libtinymail-camel/camel-lite/camel/providers/imap/camel-imap-store.[ch]:
>         * Added fetching aol specific imap capability.
> * libtinymail-camel/camel-lite/camel/providers/imap/camel-imap-folder.[ch]:
>         * Now we use FETCH instead of SEARCH for getting the UID's
>           when the server is AOL.
>         * Added an extra check in imap_get_uids. If server gives a list
>           including sequence numbers we didn't request, we ignore them.
>           This should fix the AOL problem fetching headers.
> 
> 
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