Outlook 2016 IMAP trouble

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 05.03.2018 um 17:44 schrieb Robert Giles:
> On 2018-03-05 at 10:40, Robert Schetterer wrote:
>> Am 05.03.2018 um 09:45 schrieb G:
>>> Hello List,
>>>
>>> I'm facing an issue with dovecot (2.2.27) IMAP  and Outlook as a client.
>>>
>>> George
>>
>> i have no Outlook 2016 to test but if you setup is right
>> no trouble should come up, however simply look in the dovecot log files
>> what your user did, perhaps he was offline and only thinking that he
>> synced via imap
> 
> I've observed similar behavior for a user with Outlook 2013 and Panda
> IMAP;  when synchronization failed for whatever reason, Outlook wasn't
> very verbose about it, and the user continued operating for several
> months not realizing their local mailbox had entirely diverged from the
> "true" contents on the IMAP server.
> 
> Robert
> 

never had this with Outlook 2013
but ost files may brake any time , also with exchange
mostly with big mailboxes, and there is less you can do against buggy
users, give them webmail to show real imap status on the server



Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer

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