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/* ========================================================================
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* Copyright 1988-2007 University of Washington
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* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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* You may obtain a copy of the License at
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*
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* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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*
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*
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* ========================================================================
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*/
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KNOWN BUGS/MISFEATURES/DEFICIENCIES IN THE IMAP TOOLKIT
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Last Updated: 15 November 2007
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The following are known problems/deficiencies in the imap-2007 toolkit:
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. Possible problems for some installations:
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. In some versions of Redhat Linux, SVR4-style timezone name lookup
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doesn't work properly due to a bug in glibc. The workaround is to
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edit os_lnx.c to include tz_bsd.c instead of tz_sv4.c. Note that
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other versions of Linux don't support BSD-style timezone name
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lookup, so don't make this change unless it's needed on your system.
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. In some systems, the OpenSSL distribution is installed other than at
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the standard /usr/local/ssl location. If this is the case on your
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system and you want to build with SSL support, you will need to set
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the SSLDIR variable, either by including a setting of EXTRASPECIALS
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in the make command line, e.g.
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build lnp SPECIALAUTHENTICATORS=ssl EXTRASPECIALS="SSLDIR=/usr/ssl"
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or by editing .../src/osdep/unix/Makefile
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. /tmp, /usr/tmp or /var/tmp (if present), and the mail spool directory
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must be protected 1777 (world write with sticky bit); otherwise
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mailbox locking and updates won't work. An alternative to 1777 on
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the mail spool directory is to install the mlock program that is
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bundled with the IMAP toolkit.
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. Multiple access protection locking does not work if the mailbox or
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/tmp are NFS mounted.
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. Shared access mailbox formats (mbx, mtx, mx, and tenex) do not work
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well with NFS and such usage is not supported. mmdf and unix formats
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are supported for use over NFS; however there won't be any multiple
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access locking protection.
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. Server startup delays may occur if a reverse DNS (IP address to name)
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lookup on the client's IP address does not complete in an expeditious
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fashion. This is actually a DNS problem and should be fixed in the
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DNS and/or the server's host table. A workaround exists (see the
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top-level Makefile for details) but is not recommended and can not
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be used at all with Kerberos.
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. At the insistance of the security gurus, SSL certification validation
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is now on by default. This means that you must now use the new
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/novalidate-cert switch if establishing an SSL connection to a server
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with a self-signed certificate; i.e. if "imap.example.com" has a
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self-signed certificate, you must use a mailbox name such as
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{imap.example.com/ssl/novalidate-cert}INBOX
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to get an SSL session instead of just
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{imap.example.com/ssl}INBOX
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. GCC 8.x and above on SGI systems does not correctly pass/return
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structures which are smaller than 16 bytes and are not 8 bytes. The
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problem is that structures are padded at the wrong end; e.g. a 4 byte
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structure is loaded into the lower 4 bytes of the register when it
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should be loaded into the upper 4 bytes of the register. This affects
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IRIX 6 the most because it is a 64-bit system and 4 byte structures are
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common. This compiler bug impacts the use of inet_ntoa() in c-client
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and causes syslog messages to show IP addresses as 255.255.255.255
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instead of the correct values. The fix is either to use SGI's C compiler
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instead of GCC or link with an implementation of inet_ntoa() that was
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built with GCC instead of the standard SGI C library version.
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. By default, the UNIX SSL build assumes that RSAREF is not needed, because
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RSA Security Inc. released the RSA public key encryption algorithm into
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the public domain on September 6, 2000. There is no longer any need to
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use RSAREF, and since RSAREF is slower than OpenSSL's RSA routines
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there's good reason not to. If for some reason you still want to use
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RSAREF, you will need to edit .../src/osdep/unix/Makefile to
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change SSLRSA to load libRSAglue and librsaref.
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. By default, the UNIX SSL build assumes that no name conflict exists
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between OpenSSL and Kerberos 5. If you are using an older version
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of Kerberos, you may need to edit .../src/osdep/unix/Makefile
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to change SSLCRYPTO so that it loads the OpenSSL libcrypto library
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explicitly as libcrypto.a.
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. By default, host names are canonicalized via gethostbyname() and
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gethostbyaddr() for everything except for SSL certificate validation.
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This can represent a security bug due to DNS spoofing, but is more
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likely to deliver results that users expect and also may be necessary
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to get Kerberos to work. Set variable "trustdns" in mail.c to NIL if
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you want to disable this.
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. Bugs:
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. It doesn't work to have a "}" character as a user name in /user= in a
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mailbox name, even if the user name is quoted. In other words,
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{example.com/user="foo}bar"}zap
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won't work; foo will be interpreted as an unterminated quoted string
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and the remote mailbox name will be
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bar"}zap.
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. The experimental mx driver has performance problems and shouldn't be used
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. docs/internal.txt is out of date (again)
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. UIDPLUS bugs/limitations:
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. Not supported in all local file formats (see below).
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. There are two known issues with UIDPLUS in the mmdf and unix formats:
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(a) If the destination mailbox is currently selected (whether in this
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or another session), no COPYUID or APPENDUID is returned. The other
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choice was to assign a UID based upon the uid_last value and hope
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that the session selecting the mailbox would pick it up and update
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uid_last. The problem was a timing race if another message was
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copied/appended to that mailbox before the selecting session updated
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the mailbox. If the timing race is lost, then all UID in the mailbox
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would be reassigned by the selecting session, thus making the
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returned APPENDUID/COPYUID data useless and causing a performance
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problem.
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Earlier versions did the "hope for the best" method. This was
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revoked in favor of not returning COPYUID/APPENDUID.
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Although this violates RFC 4315, there is a loophole which, although
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for other purposes, permits this behavior.
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(b) There is a known failure if the destination mailbox is currently
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selected by legacy software (e.g. older versions of the IMAP
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server, Pine, etc.). In this case, all UIDs end up being
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reassigned by the legacy software.
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. Annoyances:
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. Friendly host names (e.g. "server" instead of "server.foo.com") can't be
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used in a mailbox name with SSL certificate validation; you have to enter
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the fully-qualified domain name. This is a requirement established by
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the security gurus.
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. IMAP client limitations:
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. No SASL protection mechanisms (SASL authentication mechanisms are
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supported)
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. NNTP client limitations:
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. Non-standard IMAP SCAN extension not supported
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. POP client limitations:
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. No SASL protection mechanisms (SASL authentication mechanisms are
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supported)
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. No POP3 UID support
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. Non-standard IMAP SCAN extension not supported
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. SMTP client limitations:
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. No SASL protection mechanisms (SASL authentication mechanisms are
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supported)
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. No support for use of TURN, ETRN, and pipelining.
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. No support for enhanced status codes
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. UNIX limitations:
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. IPv6 is supported but is not the default on most platforms; you have to
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use IP=6 in the make command
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. Supported local file formats: mbx, mh, mmdf, mix, mtx, mx, news, phile,
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tenex, unix
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. Supported SASL mechanisms: CRAM-MD5, PLAIN, LOGIN, ANONYMOUS, GSSAPI
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. Sticky UIDs are not supported in the mh, mtx, and tenex drivers
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. Creation of keywords is not supported in the mh, mtx, and tenex drivers
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. Copy and append of keywords only works in the mbx driver.
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. Flat file formats (mbx, mmdf, mtx, phile, tenex, unix) do not permit
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mailboxes to have inferior names
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. SSL temporary key should be seeded better than it is.
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. UIDPLUS support is limited to the unix, mmdf, mbx, mx, and mix formats.
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. Non-standard IMAP SCAN extension not support for mh and news formats.
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. Amiga limitations:
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. Supported local file formats: mbx, mh, mmdf, mix, mtx, mx, news, phile,
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tenex, unix
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. Supported SASL mechanisms: CRAM-MD5, PLAIN, LOGIN, ANONYMOUS
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. Sticky UIDs are not supported in the mh, mtx, and tenex drivers
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. Creation of keywords is not supported in the mh, mtx, and tenex drivers
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. Copy and append of keywords only works in the mbx driver.
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. Flat file formats (mbx, mmdf, mtx, phile, tenex, unix) do not permit
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mailboxes to have inferior names
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. UIDPLUS support is limited to the unix, mmdf, mbx, mx, and mix formats.
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. Non-standard IMAP SCAN extension not supported for mh and news formats.
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. Win32 (Win9x/NT/Windows 2000) limitations:
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. IPv6 is supported in W2K builds but is not the default; you have to use
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IP=6 in the nmake command
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. Supported local file formats: mbx, mtx, tenex, unix
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. Supported SASL mechanisms: CRAM-MD5, PLAIN, LOGIN, ANONYMOUS, GSSAPI
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. No server SSL or TLS support.
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. No server authentication for GSSAPI
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. No server authentication for CRAM-MD5 on NT-based Windows (NT/2K/XP);
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it does work on DOS-based Windows (9x/Me).
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. Sticky UIDs are not supported in the mtxnt and tenexnt drivers
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. Creation of keywords is not supported in the mtxnt and tenexnt drivers
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. Copy and append of keywords only works in the mbxnt driver.
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. No support for TCP open timeouts
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. Flat file formats (mbx, mtx, tenex, unix) do not permit mailboxes to have
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inferior names
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. UIDPLUS support is limited to the unix and mbx formats.
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. Win16 (Win3.1)/DOS limitations:
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. IPv6 not supported
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. Supported local file formats: bezerk, mtx
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. Supported SASL mechanisms: CRAM-MD5, LOGIN, ANONYMOUS
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. Supported TCPs: B&W, Novell, PC-NFs, PC/TCP, Waterloo, Winsock
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. Sticky UIDs are not supported on local files
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. Creation of keywords are not supported on local files
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. Bezerk driver is read-only and does not handle LF-only newlines well
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. No support for any TCP timeouts on Waterloo DOS
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. No support for TCP open timeouts on Winsock and generic DOS
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. Flat file formats (bezerk, mtx) do not permit mailboxes to have inferior
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names
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. Does not work well unless a mailgets routine is armed when fetching
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texts.
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. Mac limitations:
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. IPv6 not supported
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. No local file drivers
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. Supported SASL mechanisms: CRAM-MD5, LOGIN, ANONYMOUS
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. Does not output human-friendly time zone string
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. TOPS-20 limitations:
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. IPv6 not supported
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. No local file drivers
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. Supported SASL mechanisms: CRAM-MD5, LOGIN, ANONYMOUS
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. No support for any TCP timeouts
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. VMS limitations:
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. IPv6 not supported
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. No local file drivers
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. Supported SASL mechanisms: CRAM-MD5, LOGIN, ANONYMOUS
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. Supported TCPs: Multinet, Netlib
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. No support for any TCP timeouts on VMS Netlib
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. No support for TCP open timeouts on VMS Multinet
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. Time zone must be configured at build time
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. Does not output human-friendly time zone string
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. Windows CE limitations:
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. IPv6 not yet supported
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. No local file drivers
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. Supported SASL mechanisms: CRAM-MD5, LOGIN, ANONYMOUS
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. No support for TCP open timeouts
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. Not finished, only builds c-client library
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. OS/2 limitations:
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. IPv6 not supported
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. Not finished, does not build
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