Re: Outlook 2013/2010 nightmare #2

2015-03-10 Thread Joseph Tam
"David.M.Clark" 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. I

Re: Outlook 2013/2010 nightmare #2

2015-03-09 Thread Eric Broch
On 3/9/2015 7:16 PM, Michael M Slusarz wrote: > Quoting David.M.Clark : > >> Outlook also has a declaration that as of either version 2010 or >> 2013, they no longer download IMAP headers, they download the whole >> message - thank God for faster Internet connections these days - >> could you imagi

Re: Outlook 2013/2010 nightmare #2

2015-03-09 Thread Michael M Slusarz
Quoting David.M.Clark : Outlook also has a declaration that as of either version 2010 or 2013, they no longer download IMAP headers, they download the whole message - thank God for faster Internet connections these days - could you imagine that in the older dialup days? Still it is a waste

Re: Outlook 2013/2010 nightmare #2

2015-03-09 Thread David.M.Clark
Yes Eric, Outlook also has a declaration that as of either version 2010 or 2013, they no longer download IMAP headers, they download the whole message - thank God for faster Internet connections these days - could you imagine that in the older dialup days? Still it is a waste of bandwidth and

Re: Outlook 2013/2010 nightmare #3

2015-03-09 Thread David.M.Clark
Hi All, Sorry for the extra e-mail. Given I am helping roll out this identical setup again I am thinking I will test another approach which I am hoping will work but given having two or more PCs trying to access the 'mail' folder crashed at this site on the weekend, I went away from this. But

Re: Outlook 2013/2010 nightmare #2

2015-03-09 Thread David.M.Clark
Hi All and my sincere thanks to Jakob and Joseph for your responses. I got around the nightmare for this site but it is far from satisfactory and given both Thunderbird, Roundcube and the Android e-mail client work perfectly as expected, this following links comments enforce what I experienced

Re: Outlook 2013/2010 nightmare

2015-03-09 Thread Jakob Curdes
Just a basic comment: Outlook is well known for its bad IMAP support. It is really not a recommendable IMAP client. My experience is similar to yours: it may work, then it may not work, while other clients can use the same account without problems. Essentially I think Outlook always beleives wha

Re: Outlook 2013/2010 nightmare

2015-03-08 Thread Joseph Tam
"David.M.Clark" writes: I do have some customers using Outlook or Windows Live Mail, and these are for the most part working fine with IMAP - I don't do POP. ... The issue starts when you add an IMAP user to the Outlook client and upon opening it, initially, it tries to find a "Sent" Items fold

Outlook 2013/2010 nightmare

2015-03-07 Thread David.M.Clark
Hi All, This is my first post so forgive me if this hits the wrong list. I have been using dovecot for years happily with SendMail on mainly CentOS servers, and my customers are starting to more and more use Thunderbird, so my perfect model is: Linux --> Dovecot --> SendMail --> Thunderbird