[Dovecot] Dovecot on Mac - Entourage cannot fetch emails

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 09:46 -0800, Bijo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Dovecot 1.1.3 is running on Mac OS X 10.5 latest version, with Maildir
> (LAYOUT=fs).  I have following issues when Entourage 2008 connects it, over
> imap/imaps.
> 
> Entourage does not cache the mails.  After every restart the folder contents
> are fetched fresh.  I have enabled the Entourage option to get entire
> messages.  Entourage caches the gmail IMAP folders fine.  Also Outlook 2007
> does not have this problem while connecting to the same IMAP server.

No idea.

> I have some big folders with a few thousands of emails.  Entourage fails
> with Error: 4362 (Mail could not be retrieved this time) while fetching
> mails from these folders.  Restarting and rebuilding the Entourage database
> did not fix this issue.
> 
> Any tips to resolve these issues or to debug what is going on would be
> greatly appreciated.  

Enabling rawlog to see what Entourage is talking to Dovecot might show
something, like if the last command it sends fails:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Debugging/Rawlog
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