I have to cope with a very unusual imap server behavior, but maybe
stunnel can help me: Can stunnel send an imap command ("XX LOGOUT"),
just before closing the tcp session?
Setup: I use stunnel for SSL/TLS offloading, both via extra port (993)
and StartTLS emulation (143). Our imap server (Mercury) has a very
peculiar feature: If a tcp connection is closed without properly closing
the imap session first (LOGOUT), the server discards certain attributes,
specifically, it "forgets" all deletions since last logout. Since many
imap clients just tear down the connection in certain cases (for example
Thunderbird going into offline mode, many webmailers or stunnel reaching
it's "TIMEOUTidle"), this causes mails to be undeleted. We currently use
an older version of the mailserver, since only the newest is broken.
Needless to say, this does not go well with our users. A fixed version
of the imap server may never come, so, until we can switch all users to
a new mail system: Is it possible to use stunnel to send an additional
imap command before closing the tcp connection (something like "999
LOGOUT")? The command should be sent no matter why the connection is
closed, either because the client closed it, a timeout is reached or
stunnel is unloaded. If the connection is already cleanly logged out,
this doesn't matter, in all other situations it would help.
Would it be possible to send such a command, or could this be added as a
new feature?
Greetings
Markus Borst
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