[Dovecot] Outlook 2010 very slow when using IMAP - are there any tweaks?

[Wojciech Puchar]

> Equivalents of all these can be presented the other way around against badly 
> configured free software solutions.

Fortunately not microsoft sets open standard and have to conform to them 
or there will be microsoft only mail. And more fortunately not these 
admins.

OK response from exchange server getting properly my e-mail is enough 
proof that email was delivered to it.
No attempts (including tcpdump trace) of sending e-mail from exchange 
serverr to me is too a proof of email not being delivered by it.

Yet fortunately it is really easy to fight it - EXPLAIN people.

Most people just don't know what they are doing wrong and not willingly 
want to make things more complicated. Simply explaining them is from my 
experience enough in 99% of cases. YES really it works but most people 
here never tried it!

As for latter - maybe it is possible to make exchange actually work, 
but statistics shows that it is not possible, or incredibly hard or people 
that are exchange administrators have no knowledge.

For any of my clients asking if exchange or outlook would be good 
solution i just recommend visiting any company that actually use it and 
ask average employee (not boss). This always work.

The other false statement is that such solution are designed for large 
scale businesses. The larger case the less chance it may work at all.

Seems i am the only one here that do not fear the truth. I don't risk 
being fired :) as i work for those that (most often) already got at least 
one of that "enterprise" solutions and wanted something that actually 
work.

And this is what i recommend to all of you.


I recommend ending this topic altogether, as it is not dovecot related at 
all - unless anyone will find a problem with Dovecot implementation of 
IMAP that is clearly not confirming to standards, and (possibly) affect 
microsoft outlook.

Highly unlikely but possible.

Dovecot is high performance IMAP server, but will not fix bad client 
software.