[plug] Outlook with IMAP

[Timothy White]

Check the dovecot documentation, and read the dovecot list archives.

I recall there are settings in dovecot to make Outlook play better
with it, some sort of bug in Outlook that dovecot can work around I
think.

Tim

On 5/24/07, Denis Brown <dsbrown at cyllene.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> 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...
>
> <snip>
>
> 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
>
>
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