[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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