[plug] Outlook with IMAP

[Phillip Bennett]

Hi all,

I have recently replaced our company's email server, upgrading from sendmail 
and ilohamail to postfix and dovecot.  This gives us the better features of 
IMAP and the use of squirrelmail for webmail.

The problem, however, is Outlook.  Some people in our company are now 
complaining because Outlook takes so long to start up in the morning and 
after reboots.  Basically, it hangs for a minute or three on startup like 
it's looking for something...  I've tried Thunderbird and Outlook express 
and both of these are extremely fast for IMAP access so I don't think it's 
the server.  Has anyone got any ideas about what this could be, or how I 
could go about speeding it up?  Am I destined to switch everyone back to 
pop3 access and make it 'like it used to be' to stop them whinging?

And, I can't get rid of outlook.  Our CRM program (Maximizer) is HEAVILY 
tied to outlook.  Can't even switch to OE, as it doesn't work properly with 
the CRM.

Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Phil.