[Imap-uw] LOGIN-REFERRALS

Mark Crispin MRC at CAC.Washington.EDU
Tue Sep 18 16:13:26 PDT 2007


On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, David Severance wrote:
> The capability string on imapd displays LOGIN-REFERRALS and the above text 
> got me wondering if it could be used instead of proxy software but I couldn't 
> find any mention in the docs txt files of how to use it. What can this really 
> do and how would I create list of referrals?

Basically, you have to add site-written code in loginpw(), file log_???.c 
to call the login referrals hook.  But that probably won't help much, 
since most clients (Pine and Alpine being notable exceptions) ignore 
referrals...

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