[Dovecot] Outlook + Outlook Express

[Andrew Gargan]

Hi All
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 02:33, Curtis Maloney wrote:

> Andrew Gargan wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I am having problems with users accessing their maildir mail stores 
> > through dovecot
> > I am working on version 0.99.11-1 (on fedora core)
> 
> At the very least, you should look for version 0.99.14, as there were a 
> considerable number of fixes between these versions.
> 

Thanks am going to do that tonight ... does anyone know of any issues on
fedora core 3 ...

Am going to use the Fedora Recommended update ... 0.99.13-3 ...


> If possible, current wisdom is to recommend the 1.0-stable branch, which 
> has far too many improvements to list here.
> 
> > It seems to be when the email size is large (450KB +)
> 
> Are you using mbox or Maildir storage?
> 
> > The errors are (the server disconnected unexpectedly)
>  > Have read through logs and looked for clues but am just getting no 
> where ...
> 
> Do you have logging turned up full?
> 
> > Have turned on the three Outlook and Outlook Express workarounds I found 
> > but no luck.
> 
> Heh... I turned these _off_ last week... but we have a company policy 
> that OutLoo is not allowed.  If people complain to me, I get to tell 
> them they can't be having problems with it, because they can't be using 
> it. Ah, the joys of having Engineers as company directors. :)
> 
> > All the linux boxes here seem to be able to handle things fine ... 
> > (kmail evolution etc.)
> > 
> > Thunderbird is also giving me hassles when trying to pull large mail files.
> 
> Almost all my users run Thunderbird, no problems.  Even when marketing 
> decides to send a 9MB file to someone.
> 
> > The server is a 2.8 P4 HT with 1024 MB RAM 200GB SATA RAID.
> > +- 7 domains and +-1200 users.
> 
> Plenty of grunt, then.  I'm assuming some Linux variant... FC perhaps?
> 
> > Squirrel Mail seems fine and users are using that to get around the 
> > problem for now but I really need the pop3 access working ...
> 
> Such a popular tool... if only it weren't written in PHP.
> 
> > My MTA is postfix and I am using virtual mailboxes using mysql_lookups.
> > 
> > I am also running MailScanner and ClamAV and SpamAssassin (using the 
> > hold queue method)
> 
> For once, someone providing an excess of information.  Good work :)
> 
> --
> Curtis Maloney

Andrew Gargan
Developer
Interface Media (PTY) Ltd.
Tel: 011 507 3003
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