On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 06:56 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> [2011.06.13.1623 +0200]: > > It could, and Dovecot does that for several commands. But I'm a bit > > afraid of adding such code for APPEND, because it could easily break > > some clients. I know an old version of Evolution broke if it got any > > extra data during APPEND. > > Couldn't the client signal to the server that it wants/expects such > data, and only then does dovecot send such pings?
Good luck getting any client to implement something like that.