[Dovecot] Best configuration of dovecot for limit Outlook problems with IMAP

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 18:53 +0200, Alessio Cecchi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in some installation where users using IMAP and Outlook Express I have some 
> problems.
> 
> Outolook randomly presents problems in messages retrieving, for example:
> 
> "Outlook Express is unable to retrieve the requested message because the 
> server no longer has the message available.... server response: Fecth 
> Completed"

"Fetch completed" is a success reply. Is there anything in Dovecot's
logs?

> "Message could not be displayed" error message when I try to view an Outlook 
> Express e-mail message

Have you set synchronization to "headers only"? If so, this error
message can happen and there's nothing the IMAP server can do about it.

> What further changes to the configuration of dovecot could I do?

My guess is that OE is just buggy and there's nothing that can be done
to fix it.

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