[Dovecot] Problem with preserving MIME format with Dovecot IMAP and MS Outlook client

[Timo Sirainen]

On 1.8.2012, at 23.53, Peter Grimmond wrote:

> have installed Dovecot 2.0.19 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.  I have set up a 
> very basic IMAP configuration.  I have two different laptops running MS 
> Outlook (one MacOS, one Windows 7) and I have configured both to connect
> to the Dovecot service.  My problem is, emails in MIME format that I 
> synchronise from one MS Outlook client are not being correctly decoded 
> as MIME messages on the other client.  Instead, the message is rendered 
> in plaintext, starting with the lines:

Have you tried other clients? Maybe the mails are actually broken? In any case it doesn't really look like a Dovecot problem.