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

[Kaya Saman]

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Robert Schetterer
<robert at schetterer.org> wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Best Regards
> MfG Robert Schetterer
>
>

Thanks!

I tried disabling this for **all** accounts but found no perfomance benefit.


Regards,

Kaya