on 2-28-2008 1:53 PM Eugene spake the following:
Hi people!
I just switched one of my servers from Courier to Dovecot. Planned to do it anyway but had to do it faster after the discovery that courier [the version I had installed, at least] returns malformed headers for a few messages, causing Outlook Express to completely ignore them. Curiously, they were visible in Squirrelmail and Nokia Series60 e-mail client.
Overal I am quite happy but have one little problem. More often than not, I have to press 'Purge' button two or more times in order to actually remove the deleted messages. The fragment of Outlook's IMAP log is below. Interestingly, Dovecot 1.0.7 (on another server) does not have such problem.
Are you sure that they weren't removed the first time but Outlook didn't refresh its header listing?
I have seen outlook take its sweet time in updating its header listings with IMAP. I never thought that its support for IMAP could be worse than its support for POP3.
I have to deal with it just because of the varied users I support, so I have Outlook, outlook express and thunderbird all configured to see my message store just for experimentations sake. But I use thunderbird daily.
-- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!