[plug] Outlook with IMAP

[Denis Brown]

At 04:59 PM 24/05/2007, Phillip Bennett wrote:
>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...

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FWIW you might have a look at the More Settings options under the Outlook 
mail setup for IMAP.   In the Advanced tab there is a slider to set "server 
timeouts"   Suggest experiment with that.

HTH,
Denis