[Dovecot] Outlook 2003 marks email for deletion

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Mar 7 11:07:09 EET 2008


On Mar 4, 2008, at 5:47 PM, Jan van den Berg wrote:

> 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?

Maybe it's because Outlook wants to use "Junk email" mailbox but  
Courier requires that all mailboxes are under "INBOX." namespace, so  
it never allowed Outlook to create that mailbox? When you changed to  
Dovecot you used the default namespace without a prefix, so it was  
able to create this mailbox.

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