[Dovecot] Outlook Duplicates issue is still killing me
Hi, I have one pop3 client who has three computers, and he has Outlook XP on two, and 2003 on the third. They are all set to leave a copy of messages on the server, and that causes a duplicate message for every message he gets. I then can tell him to uncheck the "leave a copy on the server" box, and pop his mail, and the duplicates will go away for two or three days, only to start up again. I have a stock Fedora Core 2 server with dovecot and Sendmail. I do a nightly yum, so as to stay up2date. My version of dovecot is 1.0-test42. Has anyone else seen this issue? What can I do to fix it, short of permanently unchecking that box in Outlook? (The user is my boss, and he likes to get his email on all three computers...)
-- Jeff Ramsey MIS Administrator Tubafor Mill, Inc.
Jeff Ramsey wrote:
Has anyone else seen this issue? What can I do to fix it, short of permanently unchecking that box in Outlook? (The user is my boss, and he likes to get his email on all three computers...)
Set him up using IMAP (Outlook _is_ capable of using this newer protocol). POP was never intended to be used this way...
HTH
John
-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748
Agreed. That was going to be my answer. I use IMAP (with Thunderbird, not LookOut thankfully) so I can access my mail from the desktop, laptop and via squirrelmail if neither of those are available.
I think the only excuse for using Outlook is if you are must use an Exchange server....
John Peacock wrote:
Jeff Ramsey wrote:
Has anyone else seen this issue? What can I do to fix it, short of permanently unchecking that box in Outlook? (The user is my boss, and he likes to get his email on all three computers...)
Set him up using IMAP (Outlook _is_ capable of using this newer protocol). POP was never intended to be used this way...
HTH
John
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 13:53 -0700, Jeff Ramsey wrote:
Hi, I have one pop3 client who has three computers, and he has Outlook XP on two, and 2003 on the third. They are all set to leave a copy of messages on the server, and that causes a duplicate message for every message he gets. I then can tell him to uncheck the "leave a copy on the server" box, and pop his mail, and the duplicates will go away for two or three days, only to start up again. I have a stock Fedora Core 2 server with dovecot and Sendmail. I do a nightly yum, so as to stay up2date. My version of dovecot is 1.0-test42. Has anyone else seen this issue? What can I do to fix it, short of permanently unchecking that box in Outlook? (The user is my boss, and he likes to get his email on all three computers...)
test42 is older than I remember :) In any case your problem is fixed with this setting:
# POP3 UIDL format to use. You can use following variables: # # %v - Mailbox UIDVALIDITY # %u - Mail UID # %m - MD5 sum of the mailbox headers in hex (mbox only) # %f - filename (maildir only) # # Note that Outlook 2003 seems to have problems with %v.%u format which is # Dovecot's default, so if you're building a new server it would be a good # idea to change this. %08Xu%08Xv should be pretty fail-safe. #pop3_uidl_format = %v.%u
Alternatively if test42 doesn't have the setting and you want to patch it instead of upgrading, you can use a patch that is for 0.99.x, but similar fix should work with test42:
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