Library should use HELP command

Pete Davis — Thu, 06 May 2004 12:07:45 -0000

I don't know that this really qualifies as a bug, but the
library should issue the help command after initiating a
connection to establish which commands are supported
by the server. Not all servers implement all of the
commands and some admins may choose not to support
certain commands for performance reasons. Normally
there are ways to work around these and the library
should be flexible enough to identify them and work
around them.

For example, my server doesn't support the "BODY"
command (don't know why). To get around this, the
library should issue the "ARTICLE" command instead and
retrieve the entire article.

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Library should use HELP command