Outlook 2016 & IMAP Trouble with dovecot

[Jakob Curdes]

> Thanks,
>
> that means that outlook is useless as an Imap client then . This is 
> the whole idea behind
> imap, to be able to do work while off-line and sync changes when 
> on-line or I get it wrong ?
>
> thanks anyway

I would see it a bit more general: Outlook is mostly useless as email 
client in general (not looking at the groupware functionality). Even 
with Exchange or other server types, many simple things do not work 
reliably and never get fixed.
And the simplest things are impossible, e.g. displaying the full email 
address of a sender instead of the name only (to make it harder to spoof 
senders). I suspect 2016 is the 2nd-last version of Outlook to be 
released and from then on it will be browser-only.
That said, IMAP support is "strange" and has always been - OL trusts its 
own .ps ort .ost file more than the server which circumvents the general 
idea of IMAP. If you need Outlook, avoid IMAP and if you need IMAP, 
avoid Outlook....

JC