[Dovecot] Help! OT: Blackberry IMAP client suggestions/experience needed
Knute Johnson
knute at frazmtn.com
Thu Mar 13 19:01:08 EET 2008
>Sure it will in your situation...but when you have more than one client going
>after the mailbox, they'll step on each other's work n vanilla Dovecot. And in
>this case there are at least 2 and as many as 4 or 5 mail clients all open at
>the same time going after an mbox format inbox. We originally had some
>Unpleasantness with the unsupported BB users where they left their BBs on at
>home and came to work and found that they would delete stuff and that it would
>then come back (their Macs were set to make deleted stuff disappear from the
>list but not be expunged until they did that....and when the BB popped up from
>its 5 minute nap and checked the mailbox, it would break the lock and invalidate
>the work). Those user now do an atomic delete with immediate expunge. And
>their use was simple compared to the CFO's...would you believe one of his 3
>secretaries uses the Trash folder as a secondary storage area? <shudder> And
>cannot be talked out of it?
A large part of the time she has Pegasus running on her desktop too
and we've not seen any of these problems.
I don't know of any IMAP apps to get for a BB but if you come across
a good one, please post a note here.
--
Knute Johnson
Molon Labe...
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