122088 - Generate error dialogs when IMAP errors occur due to Compliance error messages

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, enhancement)

Description

[Zac Spitzer]

there are many problems with IMAP compliance, for example with myrealbox.com, it
would be good if mozilla generated error dialogs when IMAP errors occur due to
standards compilance errors

that way the bug's are shown to be server side and not with mozilla

visibilty of bugs help make them get fixed

Comment 1

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

valid (and nice) suggestion, confirming. Not sure, how feasible this is, though.

Comment 2

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Zac, this should be Component IMAP, not backend, not? (if so, please also
reassign to that default assignee.)

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Is this something we'd want to do?

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Can we even define what this would be

Comment 5

[gene smith]

We currently look for and log a lot of potential imap syntax errors in the imap response data. However, I'm sure these don't catch all the possible errors when parsing the imap responses but there are a lot of checks:
https://searchfox.org/comm-central/search?q=SetSyntaxError&path=parser&case=false&regexp=false

Also, we put up an alert pop-up when the server itself reports a BAD response indicating TB is not following the protocol. For example the server will report [TRYCREATE] if we try to copy or move a message to a folder that doesn't exist.

At this point in time IMAP is mature and and consistently implemented by (most) server vendors, unlike 20 years ago, I don't see value in adding anything to what is currently done.