On Wednesday, 28 April 2021 13:49:03 CDT Steve Dondley wrote:
I repeatedly have a hell of a time getting clients' Outlook software working well with Dovecot. It's hard for me to test myself since I don't have Outlook and it would be impossible to keep up with all the different versions anyway.
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It always seems to be hit or miss with outlook as to which encryption setting to use, which port to try, etc. With a recent client, I couldn't get them successfully logged in no matter what manual settings we tried. If someone can give me some tips on how to get most versions of Outlook cooperating well with Dovecot, I'd appreciate it.
Your best bet to make Outlook behave better as an IMAP client is to configure a mail "profile" via Control Pannel --> User Accounts --> Mail, and set all the particulars there. Recent versions of Outlook have a stripped down configuration interface that offers no flexibility. For example, from Outlook itself it's not possible to set an IMAP login name that's not an email address.
-- Greg