[Dovecot] great disappearing email mystery

[Scott Silva]

on 2-12-2009 3:48 PM Maarten Bezemer spake the following:
> 
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Scott Silva wrote:
> 
>> I just found this;
>> http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=736
>> I guess Outlook 2003 introduced a newer version of the PST files that
>> has a
>> 20GB (twenty GB ) limit, but they have to be created with 2003, and
>> they are
>> not backward compatible.
> 
> True, for anything but IMAP. IMAP in Outlook2003 is still forced to be
> non-unicode in old-style PST's. (Which indeed does screw up when
> receiving mails in Russian unicode charset.. rather badly.)
> Starting from Outlook2007 you can use unicode PST's for IMAP connections.
> 
> I'm seriously considering doing some evaluation of the Bynari Insight
> connector, which could make my life somewhat easier. Problem is that
> Dovecot is not officially supported, and it has some notes about email
> virus scanners having to be disabled for it to work properly.
> (And of course the licensing / activation issue which makes it less
> practical for setups that have intermittent internet connections.)
> Is there anyone here who has experience with this?
> 
> [yes, I think I'll start a fresh thread about that..]
> 
> Regards,
> Maarten
> 
If you HAVE to use Outlook, it only shines with Exchange. Everything else
about outlook is just not great.

-- 
MailScanner is like deodorant...
You hope everybody uses it, and
you notice quickly if they don't!!!!

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