[Dovecot] Sudden IMAP problem - UID Errors

[Timo Sirainen]

On 28.6.2005, at 13:55, Jamie Heckford wrote:

> "Your server has reported a UID which does not comply with the IMAP 
> standard. This typically indicates a server bug. Your program may not 
> function properly after this."
>
> This is using Outlook 2003 as the IMAP client, and is only affecting a 
> single user.

This is Outlook 2003 bug that is caused by Dovecot's default UIDL 
format. With Dovecot 1.0-test and 1.0-stable releases you can can 
change this from pop3_uidl_format setting (see the example config file 
for a good value). For 0.99.x you can use a patch: 
http://dovecot.org/patches/outlook-pop3-uidl.diff
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