[Dovecot] Outlook 2003 marks email for deletion
Hi,
Im running Dovecot 1.1RC1 (only IMAP).
I noticed that when I connect with Outlook 2003; and I start reading new email some mails get marked (completely random) for deletion (,S -> ,ST) ??
I can set this mail to unread, undo the deletion read it again and it will stay OK. But other emails will still get marked.
This only seems to happen with Outlook 2003 not with Outlook Express or Thunderbird and only with new unread mail.
Any ideas why Outlook marks this mail for deletion?
Cheers,
Jan
Hi Jan,
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Jan van den Berg wrote:
I noticed that when I connect with Outlook 2003; and I start reading new email some mails get marked (completely random) for deletion (,S -> ,ST) ??
Did you enable content filtering in Outlook? I've seen things like this before, when Outlook decides the contents of a message are spam or otherwise unwanted. Another possible explanation could be that Outlook has an inconsistent view of the mail 'folder'. Either because you are also using different MUA's with the same IMAP account, or because Outlook's local cache gets bigger than the ANSI limit of 1 (or 2?) GB.
[side note: does anybody know how to disable this cache crap? Outlook converts Base64 Unicode-messages to 'parsed' text. In case the original was e.g. in Cyrillic, the local cache will contain '?' for every character not in US-ASCII orso. Moving mails to other folders does not copy the base64 contents, but the 'translated' contents. Thus destroying the message...]
Maarten
Hi,
It seems it might have something to do with the Junk email setting. I noticed all the marked-for-deletion mail was automatically moved to the 'Junk email' folder. But here is what I don't understand:
Why my previous Courier IMAP server never did this; with the same Outlook Junk email settings.
What is so specific about Dovecot that this happens? Could it be that Dovecot and Outlook have a certain negotiation about this. Outlook sends a message to Dovecot about a Junk email and Dovecot then moves this. Can this be confirmed? Can I look for this 'negotiation' in strace?
Cheers,
Jan
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Maarten Bezemer [mailto:mcbdovecot@robuust.nl] Verzonden: dinsdag 4 maart 2008 13:45 Aan: Jan van den Berg CC: Dovecot Mailing List Onderwerp: Re: [Dovecot] Outlook 2003 marks email for deletion
Hi Jan,
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Jan van den Berg wrote:
I noticed that when I connect with Outlook 2003; and I start reading new email some mails get marked (completely random) for deletion (,S -> ,ST) ??
Did you enable content filtering in Outlook? I've seen things like this before, when Outlook decides the contents of a message are spam or otherwise unwanted. Another possible explanation could be that Outlook has an inconsistent view of the mail 'folder'. Either because you are also using different MUA's with the same IMAP account, or because Outlook's local cache gets bigger than the ANSI limit of 1 (or 2?) GB.
[side note: does anybody know how to disable this cache crap? Outlook converts Base64 Unicode-messages to 'parsed' text. In case the original was e.g. in Cyrillic, the local cache will contain '?' for every character not in US-ASCII orso. Moving mails to other folders does not copy the base64 contents, but the 'translated' contents. Thus destroying the message...]
Maarten
On Mar 4, 2008, at 5:47 PM, Jan van den Berg wrote:
Hi,
It seems it might have something to do with the Junk email setting. I noticed all the marked-for-deletion mail was automatically moved to the 'Junk email' folder. But here is what I don't understand:
Why my previous Courier IMAP server never did this; with the same Outlook Junk email settings.
What is so specific about Dovecot that this happens? Could it be that Dovecot and Outlook have a certain negotiation about this. Outlook
sends a message to Dovecot about a Junk email and Dovecot then moves this.
Can this be confirmed? Can I look for this 'negotiation' in strace?
Maybe it's because Outlook wants to use "Junk email" mailbox but
Courier requires that all mailboxes are under "INBOX." namespace, so
it never allowed Outlook to create that mailbox? When you changed to
Dovecot you used the default namespace without a prefix, so it was
able to create this mailbox.
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Jan van den Berg
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Maarten Bezemer
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Timo Sirainen