[Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

[Jerry]

On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:25:22 +0100
Luigi Rosa <lists at luigirosa.com> replied:

> Thomas Harold said the following on 22/11/09 03:51:
> 
> > Out of morbid curiosity... how good is Outlook 2007 at IMAP?  
> 
> Better than 2003. In 2007 you can even store your sent mail in an
> IMAP box instead on a local folder.
> 
> The new PST file formt has still a size limit (20 gigs).
> 
> But you have to take in account that Outlook is mainly a client of
> Exchange that incidentally does POP3 and IMAP.

They have made major changes to the *.pst format, including size limit.
You could start here for some basic information.

http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archive/2009/10/29/outlook-pst-file-format-and-interoperability.aspx

Of course this only applies to Microsoft Office 2010, a BETA of which
is available at:

http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archive/2009/11/18/announcing-microsoft-office-2010-beta.aspx

If you are using a version <2007 then upgrading should be seriously
considered. The "ODF" format in the 2010 version is supposedly more
compliant than that used in OpenOffice.

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Jerry
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