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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/05/2018 05:40 PM, John Woods
wrote:<br>
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George,<br>
<br>
We run Dovecot with Outlook, and have had similar problems
when Outlook is operating in "Offline Mode". When you're in
offline mode, doing any folder-level operations, such as Copy,
Create, Rename, Move, Delete, etc. causes problems with the
mailbox. The end result is that you could lose e-mails and entire
folders that were involved in the offline operation.<br>
<br>
How we have fixed this in the past, what we have done is:<br>
<ol>
<li>Do an Outlook "export" of the entire contents of the IMAP
account into a ".pst" file. (This saves the e-mails that may
be at-risk of being lost.)</li>
<li>Delete the IMAP account in Outlook, which includes the
".ost" file.<br>
</li>
<li>Delete the IMAP account on the Dovecot server</li>
<li>Reconfigure the IMAP account in Outlook</li>
<li>Restore the IMAP contents from the ".pst" file in step #1.</li>
<li>Educate the user about not doing folder-level operations
while in offline mode.<br>
</li>
</ol>
Hope this helps...<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
John<br>
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<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
that means that outlook is useless as an Imap client then . This is
the whole idea behind<br>
imap, to be able to do work while off-line and sync changes when
on-line or I get it wrong ?<br>
<br>
thanks anyway<br>
<br>
George
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