outlook 2013

[Trent Lloyd]

I had a much more exciting experience with Outlook for Mac (which is much worse…)

Changed from Dovecot 0.9 to 2.2 but changed the folder separator from . to \, so that I could have shared folders with dots in the username.
When you do this, it starts creating a new mailbox every time it connects every minute, called like Trash 1, Trash 1 1, Trash 1 1 1, Trash 1 1 1.. I got up to about 40+ appended folder names. It also does this with INBOX, Sent, etc.

It won’t ever stop doing this, and even if you change the folder separator back it still keeps doing it.  Only way to fix is to change the server name which causes it to purge the entire local cache and start over (basically a quick delete/re-add).


My other favourite issue with Outlook for Mac was it eating messages, they’d come in, and disappear.  Spam filtering was off, no rules setup, they just disappeared, and got deleted from the server.  Eish.


Trent

On 10 Sep 2014, at 12:15 pm, Trent Lloyd <trentl at webinabox.net.au> wrote:

> I have had this problem a lot on my old Dovecot 0.9 system.. it seems to be OK on 2.2 however.
> It’s really noticeable when interacting with another Apple map system.
> 
> 
> One key thing is the Outlook by default doesn’t immediately purge your deleted items.  It lags on that a bit. There are settings to change that.
> 
> Trent
> 
> 
> On 10 Sep 2014, at 8:51 am, Bob Miller <bob at computerisms.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Patrick,
>> 
>> Thanks for your reply.
>> 
>>> I have no idea what your doing to cause this issue :(
>>> 
>>> I have a normal install of dovecot running, and I have 3 webmail pages  
>>> open, 2 phones using imap, and a thunderbird connected to it. I  
>>> started with outlook 2007, then 2010, and now 2013 for the last 2  
>>> years or 3years (I upgraded to it in beta at first). I haven't had any  
>>> issues at all, I can delete emails, move emails, ..., and they  
>>> instantly change in the other programs.
>> 
>> I have several accounts that are used by a variety of different programs
>> and devices, as well, but the only program that gives me any problem is
>> outlook 2013.  And not quite consistently, on some few machines I have
>> seen it work the same as any other client.  This one particular case has
>> me quite baffled though.
>> 
>>> I just use the normal outlook2013 config options for the account,  
>>> besides making sure the ssl settings are right.
>>> 
>>> I think I have only used it on the 2.2 branch though, what dovecot  
>>> version are you using?
>> 
>> # dovecot --version
>> 2.2.13
>> 
>> sigh.  At least now I know it should be working, so I will keep
>> searching fior a solution...