[Dovecot] New mail not appearing consistently in Outlook 2003

[Juha Saarinen]

On 3/26/07, Karl von Randow <karl at cactuslab.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have continuously experienced a new mail not appearing problem in Outlook
> 2003 on Windows XP. Using Dovecot 0.99.14 on Debian Sarge and now in 1.0rc26
> and rc27.
>
> The problem exhibits itself as:
> Some new mail is randomly(?) not shown in my mailbox. More new mail does
> appear, so it's difficult to know when a message has been missed. If I
> restart Outlook the missed new messages will appear as unread in the order
> where they should have been received in my inbox.

For what it's worth, Outlook 2003 and 2007 are less than ideal as IMAP
clients. Thunderbird works far better.

Have you thought about using Maildirs instead of mboxes?

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Juha
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