Thanks Juha, nice to see you here :) Yes I'm definitely considering a move to Thunderbird; I've even downloaded and installed it... But migrations pains aside I'd quite like to leave Outlook on good terms and if it is an incompatibility between Outlook and Dovecot it is better fixed.
I did consider Maildirs when we migrated to Dovecot from UW-IMAP, but it was too much for me to do in one go. One of the things that drew me to Dovecot was its improved performance with mbox, and in the performance side of things I have definitely found it pay off - especially compared to my experience with UW.
Karl
-----Original Message----- From: Juha Saarinen [mailto:juhasaarinen@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 26 March 2007 4:38 p.m. To: Karl von Randow Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] New mail not appearing consistently in Outlook 2003
On 3/26/07, Karl von Randow karl@cactuslab.com wrote:
Hi all,
I have continuously experienced a new mail not appearing problem in Outlook 2003 on Windows XP. Using Dovecot 0.99.14 on Debian Sarge and now in 1.0rc26 and rc27.
The problem exhibits itself as: Some new mail is randomly(?) not shown in my mailbox. More new mail does appear, so it's difficult to know when a message has been missed. If I restart Outlook the missed new messages will appear as unread in the order where they should have been received in my inbox.
For what it's worth, Outlook 2003 and 2007 are less than ideal as IMAP clients. Thunderbird works far better.
Have you thought about using Maildirs instead of mboxes?
-- Juha http://www.geekzone.co.nz/juha