On 17 Mar 2009, at 11:26, Matt Selsky wrote: > Quoting Wesley Craig <wes@xxxxxxxxx>: >> I'm pretty sure this is because neither the frontends nor the clients >> are able to intelligently handle the kinds of transient errors that >> are returned. Frontend improvements might be possible. Client >> improvements are Sisyphean. > > What could the frontends do that would be better? Lie? Try again? Not having any reason to look closely at the problem lately, I can't say for sure what the proper solution might be. But the frontend *can* tell what's happening, i.e., there are some distinct states that the xfer'ing mailbox progresses through. For each of those cases, the frontend can probably do something smart, e.g., retry, make the MUA wait until the mailbox is again in an accessible state, something else that might become apparent looking at the code. :wes ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
