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4.3.10 Server Capabilities

Capabilities are certain server features that can be enabled or disabled at the system administrator’s will.

Configuration: capability list ¶

Requests additional capabilities from the list.

The argument to capability directive must contain names of existing dicod capabilities. These are listed in the following table:

capability: auth ¶

The AUTH command is supported. See Authentication.

capability: mime ¶

The OPTION MIME command is supported. Notice that RFC 2229 requires all servers to support that command, so you should always specify this capability.

capability: lang ¶

The lang extensions are enabled. see lang extensions.

capability: markup ¶

The OPTION MARKUP command is supported. This extended command sets the preferred markup language for the output. Supported markups are reported as markup-name capabilities. See OPTION MARKUP.

capability: xidle ¶

The XIDLE command is supported. This is an experimental command that asks the server to report the configured value of inactivitiy timeout for the client session.

See XIDLE.

capability: xlev ¶

The XLEV command is supported. This command allows the remote party to set and query maximal Levenshtein distance for lev matching strategy. See strategy. See XLEV.

capability: xversion ¶

The XVERSION command is supported. It is a GNU extension that displays the dicod implementation and version number. See XVERSION.

The capabilities set using this directive are displayed in the initial server reply (see initial reply), and their descriptions are added to the HELP command output (unless specified otherwise by the help-text statement).