This document explains the status of the IMAP server portion of James, ie what functionality has been implemented or tested and what needs to be done.
| Command | Implemented | Tested - telnet | Tested - Pine | Tested - Netscape Messenger | Tested - Microsoft Outlook | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RFC2060 (Core IMAP) commands | ||||||
| CAPABILITY | Yes | OK | OK | OK | update as functionality added | |
| NOOP | Yes | OK | OK | |||
| LOGOUT | Yes | OK | ||||
| AUTHENTICATE | Yes | OK | No authentication methods other than plaintext password login supported | |||
| LOGIN | Yes | OK | OK | OK | ||
| SELECT | Yes | OK | OK | OK | ||
| EXAMINE | Yes | |||||
| CREATE | Yes | OK | ||||
| DELETE | no | JamesHost needs to implement this | ||||
| RENAME | no | JamesHost needs to implement this | ||||
| SUBSCRIBE | no | Need to design user object to hold subscriptions | ||||
| UNSUBSCRIBE | no | see SUBSCRIBE | ||||
| LIST | Partial | unsure | ||||
| LSUB | no | see SUBSCRIBE and LIST | ||||
| STATUS | Yes | OK | unsure | |||
| APPEND | no | not started | ||||
| CHECK | Yes | OK | ||||
| CLOSE | Yes | |||||
| EXPUNGE | Yes | |||||
| SEARCH | no | not started | ||||
| FETCH | Partial | see table below | ||||
| STORE | Yes | OK | ||||
| COPY | no | not started | ||||
| UID | Partial | UID FETCH (partial) and UID STORE only | ||||
| Fetch command arguments | ||||||
| Arguments | Implemented | Tested - telnet | Tested - Pine | Tested - Netscape Messenger | Tested - Microsoft Outlook | Comments |
| ALL | Yes | OK | ||||
| BODY | Partial | 1-part, multipart and embedded rfc822 messages where constituents are of type Text/Plain. Line count is not right. | ||||
| BODY[] & BODY.PEEK[] | yes | OK | ||||
| BODY[section] & BODY.PEEK[section] | Partial | TEXT, HEADER, HEADER.FIELDS & HEADER.FIELDS.NOT done - but HEADER.FIELDS buggy on Netscape. MIME, numbered sections, subsections and octet-partial-fetches not started | ||||
| BODYSTRUCTURE | Partial | See body | ||||
| ENVELOPE | Yes | OK | No | |||
| FAST | Yes | OK | ||||
| FLAGS | Yes | OK | ||||
| FULL | Yes | OK | ||||
| INTERNALDATE | Partial | Format is not right | ||||
| RFC822 | Yes | OK | ||||
| RFC822.HEADER | no | |||||
| RFC822.SIZE | Partial | giving content size not message size | ||||
| RFC822.TEXT | Yes | OK | ||||
| UID | Yes | OK | ||||
| RFC2086 (Access Control Lists) commands | ||||||
| Command | Implemented | Tested - telnet | Tested - Pine | Tested - Netscape Messenger | Tested - Microsoft Outlook | Comments |
| SETACL | Yes | OK | ||||
| DELETEACL | Yes | OK | ||||
| GETACL | Yes | OK | ||||
| LISTRIGHTS | Yes | OK | ||||
| MYRIGHTS | Yes | OK | RFC2342 (Namespaces) commands | |||
| Command | Implemented | Tested - telnet | Tested - Pine | Tested - Netscape Messenger | Tested - Microsoft Outlook | Comments |
| NAMESPACE | Yes | OK | OK | Currently only providing a private mailbox namesapce and an other users mailbox namespace. Shared mailboxes and newsgroup access tbd | ||
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