"David.M.Clark" <da...@davrom.com> writes:
So the bottom line for this particular site is:
Set the "Root Folder" for IMAP in outlook to "mail". This is messy from
my beloved Linux command line perspective in that you end up with
${HOME}/login_name/mail/mail. But it does work and stops the Outlook
crashes.
If "root folder" is Outlook's parlance for IMAP prefix, you might find
it helpful to configure a namespace alias. For examples, see
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Namespaces
(Section Backwards Compatibility: UW-IMAP)
It will map different npamespaces to the same folder so you don't have
this mail/mail/ goofiness.
If you want to share a single e-mail account across multiple PCs running
Outlook 2013, you _cannot_ use the "Root Folder" of "mail" as I have
indicated above. The workaround is to create each subsequent PC with a
"mail2", "mail3" etc folder (without the quote marks of course). If you
set up two PCs with the same Root Folder, the new PC crashes out of
Outlook and eventually so does the original PC. The only way around this
is to delete the identity and PST files in Outlook and strictly set them
up again to different "mail" something folders. Almost reminds me of the
old MS "Share Violation" issue :-)
So after the user is set to the mail2/mail3 folder and it appears under
the user's original "mail" folder, you then have to blow away the
mail2/mail3 folder and then do a symbolic link to the mail folder:
ln -s mail mail2
Again, namespace aliases might help: you can configure as many as
you like. It's a kludge though -- the behaviour you report is really
bizarre.
Joseph Tam <jtam.h...@gmail.com>
