[Dovecot] CLient issues

The Doctor doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
Mon Oct 18 21:48:16 EEST 2010


On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 02:15:28PM -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 2010-10-18 1:31 PM, The Doctor wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 01:27:40PM -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
> >> On 2010-10-16 5:38 PM, The Doctor wrote:
> >>> However some POP3 issues have popped up.
> >>>
> >>> 1) Outlook reate e-mail but not on Thunderbird.
> 
> >> What does 'reate' mean?
> 
> > I meant repeat.
> 
> More detail will be needed then...
> 
> You mean Outlook re-downloads the same message over and over and
> Thunderbird doesn't? What version of Outlook? Is it possibl;e you've
> encountered the notorious 2GB PST file bug?
> 
> I could say "don't use Outlook unless your in an Exchange environment
> (its a crappy standalone email client, but yeah its Calendar is pretty
> nice)", but I won't... ;)

Well both OutLook/ OutLook Express/ Mail and Apple Mail are 
showing signs of this.

Timo did mention using %u for debugging .

> 
> >>> 2) AVG Proxy interferes with POP3.
> >>>
> >>> Any solutions?
> 
> >> Don't use AVG...
> 
> > Solutions, not non-solutions.
> 
> The suggestion to not use a crappy antivirus that has a crappy POP proxy
> is not a non-solution. I stopped recommending AVG when it went crappy
> back at about version 7.5...
> 
> Regardless, inline mail scanning (ie, using any AV's 'proxy' scanner) is
> pretty much useless and all too often very problematic.
> 
> Just use a good AV and let its on-demand scanning do the job.
> 
> I always recommend Security Essentials (free) or NOD32 (paid) for AV...

Well the AVG uses a proxy (annoying) .  Mind you I am trying to
replace dovecot POP3 with Eudora Qpopper.

so 1) Hw do you get aV proxies to play ball

2) URL for  Security Essentials

> 
> -- 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Charles

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