[Dovecot] Outlook 2010 very slow when using IMAP - are there any tweaks?

Kaya Saman kayasaman at gmail.com
Tue Jul 3 10:09:42 EEST 2012


On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Arne K. Haaje <arne at drlinux.no> wrote:
> Den 03.07.2012 08:58, skrev Kaya Saman:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 3.7.2012, at 9.38, Kaya Saman wrote:
>>>
>>>> So if I look at a different authentication mechanism say LDAP would it
>>>> improve performance?
>>>
>>>
>>> I doubt authentication has anything to do with why Outlook downloads
>>> mails slowly.
>>>
>>> But you could configure Outlook to use plaintext authentication instead
>>> of NTLM authentication to see if it makes a difference. No need to change
>>> anything on Dovecot side then.
>>>
>>
>> I've just had a look and I don't think Outlook 2010 has that option.... ??
>
>
>
> I belive there is a checkbox there called something like "Use secure
> authentication - PKA(?)". Uncheck it, and you should have plaintext.
>
> Arne
>
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>

Thanks for that, however it wasn't checked initially.


Regards,


Kaya


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