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

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 03.07.2012 13:00, schrieb Kaya Saman:
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:57 AM, J E Lyon
> <role.Dovecot-Readers at jlassocs.com> wrote:
>> On 3 Jul 2012, at 11:51, Kaya Saman wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah, it seems to be M$ implementation of IMAP. I don't think that
>>> there's anything anyone can do.... Outlook seems to wait after each
>>> transmission (found using Wireshark).
>>
>> Is the client syncing more than it has to?  I mean, putting aside the delays in waiting on each transmission, is it generating traffic that shouldn't even be required? Still might not present a solution (short of unsubscribing much data) but I'm mindful of the oddity that disabling automatic send/receive makes such a difference.
>>
>> James.
> 
> Actually disabling Send/recieve didn't do anything :-(
> 
> 
> I held a stopwatch to it for both pre and post and no difference.
> 
> T-Bird transfers get 1 min. 35 secs for 1600 messages.
> 
> Outlook gets 3 min. 6 secs for the same amount of messages.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kaya
> 

meanwhile some workaround for the client

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6wXTP1AIq8

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MfG Robert Schetterer