"David.M.Clark" <david@davrom.com> writes:

So the bottom line for this particular site is:

Set the "Root Folder" for IMAP in outlook to "mail". This is messy from my beloved Linux command line perspective in that you end up with ${HOME}/login_name/mail/mail. But it does work and stops the Outlook crashes.

If "root folder" is Outlook's parlance for IMAP prefix, you might find it helpful to configure a namespace alias. For examples, see

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Namespaces
(Section Backwards Compatibility: UW-IMAP)

It will map different npamespaces to the same folder so you don't have this mail/mail/ goofiness.

If you want to share a single e-mail account across multiple PCs running Outlook 2013, you _cannot_ use the "Root Folder" of "mail" as I have indicated above. The workaround is to create each subsequent PC with a "mail2", "mail3" etc folder (without the quote marks of course). If you set up two PCs with the same Root Folder, the new PC crashes out of Outlook and eventually so does the original PC. The only way around this is to delete the identity and PST files in Outlook and strictly set them up again to different "mail" something folders. Almost reminds me of the old MS "Share Violation" issue :-)

So after the user is set to the mail2/mail3 folder and it appears under the user's original "mail" folder, you then have to blow away the mail2/mail3 folder and then do a symbolic link to the mail folder:

ln -s mail mail2

Again, namespace aliases might help: you can configure as many as you like. It's a kludge though -- the behaviour you report is really bizarre.

Joseph Tam <jtam.home@gmail.com>