[Dovecot] New mail not appearing consistently in Outlook 2003

[Karl von Randow]

Thanks Juha, nice to see you here :) Yes I'm definitely considering a move
to Thunderbird; I've even downloaded and installed it... But migrations
pains aside I'd quite like to leave Outlook on good terms and if it is an
incompatibility between Outlook and Dovecot it is better fixed. 

I did consider Maildirs when we migrated to Dovecot from UW-IMAP, but it was
too much for me to do in one go. One of the things that drew me to Dovecot
was its improved performance with mbox, and in the performance side of
things I have definitely found it pay off - especially compared to my
experience with UW.

Karl

-----Original Message-----
From: Juha Saarinen [mailto:juhasaarinen at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, 26 March 2007 4:38 p.m.
To: Karl von Randow
Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] New mail not appearing consistently in Outlook 2003

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
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/juha