[Dovecot] Outlook 2003 marks email for deletion

[Jan van den Berg]

Hi,

It seems it might have something to do with the Junk email setting.
I noticed all the marked-for-deletion mail was automatically moved to
the 'Junk email' folder.
But here is what I don't understand:

Why my previous Courier IMAP server never did this; with the same
Outlook Junk email settings.

What is so specific about Dovecot that this happens? Could it be that
Dovecot and Outlook have a certain negotiation about this. Outlook sends
a message to Dovecot about a Junk email and Dovecot then moves this. Can
this be confirmed? Can I look for this 'negotiation' in strace?

Cheers,

Jan


-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Maarten Bezemer [mailto:mcbdovecot at robuust.nl] 
Verzonden: dinsdag 4 maart 2008 13:45
Aan: Jan van den Berg
CC: Dovecot Mailing List
Onderwerp: Re: [Dovecot] Outlook 2003 marks email for deletion

Hi Jan,

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Jan van den Berg wrote:

> I noticed that when I connect with Outlook 2003; and I start reading
new
> email some mails get marked (completely random) for deletion (,S ->
,ST)
> ??

Did you enable content filtering in Outlook? I've seen things like this
before, when Outlook decides the contents of a message are spam or
otherwise unwanted.
Another possible explanation could be that Outlook has an inconsistent
view of the mail 'folder'. Either because you are also using different
MUA's with the same IMAP account, or because Outlook's local cache gets
bigger than the ANSI limit of 1 (or 2?) GB.

[side note: does anybody know how to disable this cache crap? Outlook
converts Base64 Unicode-messages to 'parsed' text. In case the original
was e.g. in Cyrillic, the local cache will contain '?' for every
character
not in US-ASCII orso. Moving mails to other folders does not copy the
base64 contents, but the 'translated' contents. Thus destroying the
message...]


Maarten