Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-23 Thread David Jonas
On 11/21/2009 06:15 PM, Thomas wrote: Close TB. Delete your .msf to recreate indexes. Start TB again and let it re-index (it will take a while). Then everything should be fine. If not do a bug report. I submitted a bug report before I saw your post (Tested in TB3.0rc1, BuildID=20091121181041)

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-23 Thread Charles Marcus
On 11/22/2009, Jerry (ges...@yahoo.com) wrote: > I have read at least two white papers that described Microsoft's support > for ODF in Office 2010. Wonder who authored them... > Both stated that Microsoft's support was more compliant that that in > Open Office. I googled: microsoft odf support

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-22 Thread vuser1
> > On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, vus...@test123.ru wrote: > >> Outlook is best email client. Even 2003. The only missing thing is >> inability to do imap-search request directly to imap server. > > I won't say Outlook is the worst email client I've ever seen, but we > all know that 'best' and 'Outlook' c

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-22 Thread Maarten Bezemer
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, Jerry wrote: If you are using a version <2007 then upgrading should be seriously considered. The "ODF" format in the 2010 version is supposedly more compliant than that used in OpenOffice. Rotflmao! You're not serious?? I think you are confusing the Microsoft OpenXML form

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-22 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:25:09 -0500 Charles Marcus replied: > > If you are using a version <2007 then upgrading should be seriously > > considered. The "ODF" format in the 2010 version is supposedly more > > compliant than that used in OpenOffice. > > Rotflmao! You're not serious?? I think you

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-22 Thread Maarten Bezemer
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, Charles Marcus wrote: On 11/22/2009, Maarten Bezemer (mcbdove...@robuust.nl) wrote: But at least now that I moved the Outlook.pst and outlooku...@servername-02.pst to a samba share, it is useable. Still puzzled as to why they decided to store those in de LocalSettings

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-22 Thread Frank Cusack
On November 21, 2009 9:39:10 PM -0800 Seth Mattinen wrote: The fact that it can't "delete" by moving a copy to a "deleted items" folder still bugs me enough that I won't use it. Not a useful feature anyway, IMHO. Of course this is a user preference but I like my deleted emails to stay right

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-22 Thread Maarten Bezemer
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, vus...@test123.ru wrote: Outlook is best email client. Even 2003. The only missing thing is inability to do imap-search request directly to imap server. I won't say Outlook is the worst email client I've ever seen, but we all know that 'best' and 'Outlook' can only be in

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-22 Thread Luigi Rosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charles Marcus said the following on 22/11/09 20:25: > They store them there because Microsft recommends against storing .PST > files on network shareas... always have. Things can break really badly. If you store your PST on a file server and you mak

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-22 Thread Charles Marcus
On 11/22/2009 7:46 AM, Jerry wrote: >> But you have to take in account that Outlook is mainly a client of >> Exchange that incidentally does POP3 and IMAP. Correct - Outlook shines as an Exchange client - anything else and it is anywhere from mediocre (POP) to sucks wind (IMAP). > If you are usin

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-22 Thread Charles Marcus
On 11/22/2009, Maarten Bezemer (mcbdove...@robuust.nl) wrote: > But at least now that I moved the Outlook.pst and > outlooku...@servername-02.pst to a samba share, it is useable. > Still puzzled as to why they decided to store those in de > LocalSettings instead of in the normal user profile or

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-22 Thread Charles Marcus
On 11/22/2009, Thomas Berezansky (tsb...@mvlc.org) wrote: > Wait, what? I have, right now, a HTML message open, from an IMAP > server, in Outlook 2007. Where did you hear that it wouldn't? I saw it with my own two eyes... Its been a while, maybe they addressed this with an update. Regardless, th

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-22 Thread Thomas Berezansky
Wait, what? I have, right now, a HTML message open, from an IMAP server, in Outlook 2007. Where did you hear that it wouldn't? Thomas Berezansky Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Quoting Charles Marcus : On 11/22/2009, Seth Mattinen (se...@rollernet.us) wrote: They finally added the abil

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-22 Thread Charles Marcus
On 11/22/2009, Seth Mattinen (se...@rollernet.us) wrote: > They finally added the ability to set a "sent items" folder on the IMAP > server rather than using stupid tricks to copy it over, so that's a > plus. The fact that it can't "delete" by moving a copy to a "deleted > items" folder still bugs

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-22 Thread Charles Marcus
On 11/21/2009, Jonathan (jonat...@kc8onw.net) wrote: > Do you know anything about the date issue I mentioned where TB shows > emails with a date of the last time the folder was indexed instead of > when the email was actually delivered? I missed that... but if that is occurring, then it seems like

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-22 Thread Luigi Rosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 vus...@test123.ru said the following on 22/11/09 18:19: > Maildir just for FTS? OSX changed its local mail storage to simil-maildir when has been added Exposé. Ciao, luigi - -- / +--[Luigi Rosa]-- \ And on the eighth day, we bulldozed it. -

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-22 Thread vuser1
Maildir just for FTS? Standard Windows Search component (available for free) handles PST files excellently. Outlook is best email client. Even 2003. The only missing thing is inability to do imap-search request directly to imap server. So, if the message is not yet downloaded to local PST, Outlo

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-22 Thread Luigi Rosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Maarten Bezemer said the following on 22/11/09 17:19: > [Of course, one could argue that they should make Outlook conform to > standards instead, but since they never showed any interest in > conforming to standards with any product, that would be nai

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-22 Thread Maarten Bezemer
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, Jerry wrote: Of course this only applies to Microsoft Office 2010, a BETA of which is available at: I am very happy to know that Microsft acknowledged at dawn of 2010 that the limitation of personal storage is pointless. The original PST specifications were developed wh

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-22 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:33:46 +0100 Luigi Rosa replied: > Jerry said the following on 22/11/09 13:46: > > > Of course this only applies to Microsoft Office 2010, a BETA of > > which is available at: > > I am very happy to know that Microsft acknowledged at dawn of 2010 > that the limitation of

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-22 Thread Luigi Rosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerry said the following on 22/11/09 13:46: > Of course this only applies to Microsoft Office 2010, a BETA of which > is available at: I am very happy to know that Microsft acknowledged at dawn of 2010 that the limitation of personal storage is point

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-22 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:25:22 +0100 Luigi Rosa replied: > Thomas Harold said the following on 22/11/09 03:51: > > > Out of morbid curiosity... how good is Outlook 2007 at IMAP? > > Better than 2003. In 2007 you can even store your sent mail in an > IMAP box instead on a local folder. > > The

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-22 Thread LuKreme
On 21-Nov-2009, at 19:51, Thomas Harold wrote: > Out of morbid curiosity... how good is Outlook 2007 at IMAP? I've had > experience with Outlook 2003 and the 2GB PST limit was a deal breaker for me. > I'm curious whether Outlook is getting better or worse at IMAP. It's better, but is still st

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-22 Thread Luigi Rosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Harold said the following on 22/11/09 03:51: > Out of morbid curiosity... how good is Outlook 2007 at IMAP? Better than 2003. In 2007 you can even store your sent mail in an IMAP box instead on a local folder. The new PST file formt has sti

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-21 Thread Thomas Berezansky
Didn't notice that my reply to this didn't include the list (the default reply option due to having my address directly was "to sender", not "to list" due to a local setting). Only noticed after the fact. My response: One of my IMAP folders has over 13000 messages and is handled fine, bu

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-21 Thread Seth Mattinen
Thomas Harold wrote: > On 11/20/2009 1:51 PM, Thomas Berezansky wrote: >> Personally, I am using Horde (http://www.horde.org/) at work (this >> address) and Outlook 2007 at home (largely due to getting freaky >> attachments I need to open on a regular basis that only Microsoft mail >> clients seem

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-21 Thread Thomas Harold
On 11/21/2009 9:54 PM, Jonathan wrote: Okay, that didn't take long. I have another spurious unread message already. Should I do what it says here [1] and grab a nightly build and create an entire new profile, or should I just report with what I have? Any suggestions on what component to file the

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-21 Thread Thomas Harold
On 11/21/2009 9:42 PM, Jonathan wrote: Do you know anything about the date issue I mentioned where TB shows emails with a date of the last time the folder was indexed instead of when the email was actually delivered? I've seen that bug, I generally either reindex / compact or completely unsu

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-21 Thread Jonathan
On 11/21/2009 9:15 PM, Thomas wrote: Re, As someone else noted it may be related to the amount of email I have. I probably have nearly 100,000 messages spread across 30-40 folders right now. Close TB. Delete your .msf to recreate indexes. Start TB again and let it re-index (it will take a whil

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-21 Thread Thomas Harold
On 11/20/2009 2:16 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote: We're talking about a mailbox with two or more users always in it and around 40K messages across a few hundred folders. The scale of it all seems to be part of the issue I think. I run TB v2 on my laptop and TB v3 betas on my desktop. I've not

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-21 Thread Thomas Harold
On 11/20/2009 1:51 PM, Thomas Berezansky wrote: Personally, I am using Horde (http://www.horde.org/) at work (this address) and Outlook 2007 at home (largely due to getting freaky attachments I need to open on a regular basis that only Microsoft mail clients seem to be able to open properly). O

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-21 Thread Jonathan
On 11/21/2009 9:15 PM, Thomas wrote: Re, As someone else noted it may be related to the amount of email I have. I probably have nearly 100,000 messages spread across 30-40 folders right now. Close TB. Delete your .msf to recreate indexes. Start TB again and let it re-index (it will take a whil

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-21 Thread Thomas Harold
On 11/20/2009 12:59 PM, Jonathan wrote: I'm getting tired of Thunderbird telling me I have unread messages in folders that haven't gotten new messages for months so I'm looking for a new mail client. I know the problem lies with Thunderbird because everything is fine via RoundCube and if it tell

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-21 Thread Thomas
Re, As someone else noted it may be related to the amount of email I have. I probably have nearly 100,000 messages spread across 30-40 folders right now. Close TB. Delete your .msf to recreate indexes. Start TB again and let it re-index (it will take a while). Then everything should be fine. I

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-21 Thread Jonathan
On 11/21/2009 7:22 PM, Thomas wrote: Hi Jonathan, I'm getting tired of Thunderbird telling me I have unread messages in folders that haven't gotten new messages for months so I'm looking for a new mail client. [..] Yes, it's a Thunderbird issue only. Usually that appears when you don't compac

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-21 Thread Thomas
Hi Jonathan, I'm getting tired of Thunderbird telling me I have unread messages in folders that haven't gotten new messages for months so I'm looking for a new mail client. [..] Yes, it's a Thunderbird issue only. Usually that appears when you don't compact your folders (you can ask TB to co

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-21 Thread David Brown
I lost the thread on the Sylpheed suggestion so I am replying here to let everyone know that installing (dead easy) and using (even easier) Sylpheed on my Windows XP netbook solved all of what I thought were Dovecot/IMAP problems. Apologies to Timo for the unnecessary complaints about non-existe

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-21 Thread Frank Cusack
On November 20, 2009 12:59:48 PM -0500 Jonathan wrote: So what IMAP clients do people prefer these days? Preferably windows or cross platform and it needs to have decent key bindings because (probably like many of you) I get 100s of emails a day via lists and anything that speeds my way through

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-20 Thread David Jonas
On 11/20/09 , Nov 20, 11:13 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: On 11/20/2009, Charles Sprickman (sp...@bway.net) wrote: It is very good compared to TB2. However, the exact problem the OP described still exists in 3.0b4. I've had the folks I setup with TB3 bugging the hell out of me about the "all o

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-20 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:38:43 -0500 Jonathan Jonathan replied: [snip] > I'm giving Claws Mail, a fork of Sylpheed apparently, a try. Haven't > found a way to change key bindings yet and SHIFT-! is really awkward > for marking a message unread. Place cursor over 'Mark as Read" Press the key

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-20 Thread Charles Marcus
On 11/20/2009, Charles Sprickman (sp...@bway.net) wrote: > We're talking about a mailbox with two or more users always in it and > around 40K messages across a few hundred folders. The scale of it > all seems to be part of the issue I think. Ok, last question then I'll shut up... ;) Have you tri

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-20 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Charles Marcus wrote: On 11/20/2009, Charles Sprickman (sp...@bway.net) wrote: It is very good compared to TB2. However, the exact problem the OP described still exists in 3.0b4. I've had the folks I setup with TB3 bugging the hell out of me about the "all of a sudden a b

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-20 Thread Charles Marcus
On 11/20/2009, Charles Marcus (cmar...@media-brokers.com) wrote: > What IMAP server? heh... dumb question, huh... dovecot -n output?

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-20 Thread Charles Marcus
On 11/20/2009, Charles Sprickman (sp...@bway.net) wrote: > It is very good compared to TB2. However, the exact problem the OP > described still exists in 3.0b4. I've had the folks I setup with TB3 > bugging the hell out of me about the "all of a sudden a bunch of > messages are marked new" issue.

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-20 Thread Charles Marcus
On 11/20/2009, Thomas Berezansky (tsb...@mvlc.org) wrote: > and Outlook 2007 at home (largely due to getting freaky attachments I > need to open on a regular basis that only Microsoft mail clients seem > to be able to open properly). If you're talking about winmail.dat files, I found a very simple

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-20 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, John Gateley wrote: Jonathan wrote: So what IMAP clients do people prefer these days? Preferably windows or cross platform and it needs to have decent key bindings... Have you tried the new Thunderbird 3 beta? There was a thread on this list recently about it. It has a l

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-20 Thread Thomas Berezansky
Personally, I am using Horde (http://www.horde.org/) at work (this address) and Outlook 2007 at home (largely due to getting freaky attachments I need to open on a regular basis that only Microsoft mail clients seem to be able to open properly). Horde is a webmail client, and works well in

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-20 Thread Charles Marcus
On 11/20/2009 12:59 PM, Jonathan wrote: > I'm getting tired of Thunderbird telling me I have unread messages in > folders that haven't gotten new messages for months so I'm looking for a > new mail client. I know the problem lies with Thunderbird because > everything is fine via RoundCube and if i

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-20 Thread Jonathan
On 11/20/2009 1:27 PM, John Gateley wrote: Jonathan wrote: So what IMAP clients do people prefer these days? Preferably windows or cross platform and it needs to have decent key bindings... Have you tried the new Thunderbird 3 beta? There was a thread on this list recently about it. It has a l

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-20 Thread Tassilo Horn
Jonathan writes: Hi Jonathan! > So what IMAP clients do people prefer these days? I use Gnus [1], the version that is included in Emacs 23. > Preferably windows or cross platform and it needs to have decent key > bindings because (probably like many of you) I get 100s of emails a > day via lis

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-20 Thread John Gateley
Jonathan wrote: So what IMAP clients do people prefer these days? Preferably windows or cross platform and it needs to have decent key bindings... Have you tried the new Thunderbird 3 beta? There was a thread on this list recently about it. It has a lot of IMAP improvements. Sylpheed has a ne

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-20 Thread Nicolas KOWALSKI
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Jonathan wrote: > So what IMAP clients do people prefer these days? Preferably windows or cross > platform and it needs to have decent key bindings because (probably like many > of you) I get 100s of emails a day via lists and anything that speeds my way > through them is good

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients

2009-11-20 Thread Marcus Rueckert
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