[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:
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:
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 13:53 -0700, Jeff Ramsey wrote:
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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