[Dovecot] New mail not appearing consistently in Outlook 2003

[Karl von Randow]

I forgot to add. It is possibly to do with two pieces of email arriving at
the same time, or very close to each other. For example, Juha's reply was
addressed to me and to the list, but only the addressed directly to me
showed up in my INBOX initially. The two delivery dates are:
Delivery-date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:38:19 +1200
Delivery-date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:38:28 +1200

When I quit and restart Outlook the second copy appeared. I have seen this
happen with several mailing lists I'm on twice (for testing purposes again)
and the email gets sent to two addresses in quick succession.

I hope this helps track it down!

Cheers,
Karl

-----Original Message-----
From: dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org] On
Behalf Of Karl von Randow
Sent: Monday, 26 March 2007 4:44 p.m.
To: 'Juha Saarinen'
Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] New mail not appearing consistently in Outlook 2003

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?

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