Re: [Gap-dev-discuss] disable autodetect of supported auth entication mechanisms for IMAP and SMTP

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

On Sunday, August 19, 2012 10:45 CEST, Riccardo Mottola <address@hidden> wrote: 
 
> Hi,
> 
> On 2012-08-17 12:17:12 +0200 "Sebastian Reitenbach" 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > with my investigations with regard why the autodetction of of the 
> > authentication mechanism for SMTP is broken I found that the same is 
> > true for 
> > the IMAP too.
> > In AccountEditorWindowController.m, in 
> > sendSupportedMechanismsButtonClicked: 
> > and in _connectToIMAPServer:,
> > there a [aSMTP setDelegate:self] and respectively a [store 
> > setDelegate: self] 
> > is given.
> > Then, when in those methods in AccountEditorWindowController.m the 
> > connect to 
> > the server is initiated, it goes
> > to Pantomime CWService.m _addWatchers method, which in the end calls:
> > PERFORM_SELECTOR_1(_delegate, @selector(connectionEstablished:), 
> > PantomimeConnectionEstablished);
> > but the connectionEstablished: method in 
> > AccountEditorWindowController.m 
> > doesn't exist, and therefore it just doesn't work.
> > 
> > I tried adding a connectionEstablished:method to the 
> > AccountEditorWindowController.m, and I saw it getting called, but 
> > still, I 
> > was not yet able to figure out, how then to get the information 
> > needed to 
> > update the PopUp
> > fields with the right values.
> 
> I did not try your patch yet, but your analysis seems correct. I can 
> only see the definition of the method but not the implementation. 
> Perhaps something in Pantomime changed? We should check the older 
> version.
> 
> I have one very smart question though: I compiled everything on mac 
> 10.4 and run GNUMail on it and even (the same binary) on 10.3 and the 
> SMTP "Check supported" works instantly and populates the menu! Good 
> point, not? This thickens the plot.

This is indeed interesting! Also I guess, you can do the same for IMAP and it 
will work, and probably you can populate the list of IMAP folders too.


> 
> Generally, I've used GNUMail on mac for 10 days now on the same server 
> and postbox as I do on GNUstep usually and it is much more stable. We 
> need to check. There is a lot of MACOSX def'd code. Some may be fine, 
> but perhaps some can be made use the same codebase for both? 
> Especially in CWService.m, but generally in GNUMail (taken in account 
> that the GUI is generted differently, I want to change that in the 
> long term, but not for this release of course)

Now, since its working for you on the Mac, there is probably something 
different 
in the #ifdefs between Mac and GNUstep. So, worth looking. Since 
Pantomime/GNUMail
is "old" code, and GNUstep probably got a lot more compatible over the time, 
it seems to be feasible investigating getting rid of those #ifdefs.

cheers,
Sebastian


> 
> Riccardo
>