[Dovecot] windows imap clients

[Nikolay Shopik]

On 21.09.2009 8:07, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> They've been using Thunderbird for some time and I'm finding the
> following issues there:
>
> -searches across 2GB+ of mail are painfully slow, since it's all
> server-side

TB3 does solve this problem with gloda, which index everything locally.
> -while the inbox is checked regularly and automatically, other folders
> are not unless the user manually checks them. getting tbird to do this
> involves a fairly non-intuitive process, and there's also the issue of
> making sure everyone actually adds the folders they need to watch

TB3 by default doing this if I not mistaken. (I've changed lot things in 
my config when was on 2.0)

> -the client does not deal well with large amounts of mail in general -
> some operations give no feedback, like expanding large sub-folders or
> doing large copy/move operations.
Activity manager in TB3 should help.

> app and starting the whole process again. dovecot deals with this more
> gracefully than the old server (Courier), but it's still an issue
> -offline operation would be handy sometimes, but tbird has no "hybrid"
> mode, and again, one must select every folder for offline access
>
TB3 have offline mode enabled by default. What is hybrid mode?