outlook 2000 & imap delivery problem

[Tijl Dullers]

I do not see how a patch can solve bad client side implementation of 
microsoft IMAP client , ....
Even if this patch solves the problem Netscape Mail client if a far 
better and more reliable choice.


Luc Germain wrote:

>Hi!
>
>Are you using idled on your server? If yes, you might want to try the patch
>described in this message:
>
>http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.info-cyrus&msg=17
>144
>
>It solved a similar problem for me.
>
>Luc.
>
>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : owner-info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
>[mailto:owner-info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu]De la part de Valmar
>Joandi
>Envoyé : 30 septembre 2002 09:25
>À : info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
>Objet : outlook 2000 & imap delivery problem
>
>
>Hello,
>
>
> I have cyrus-imap running on linux and appr 70 win98 client machines with
> outlook 2000. I'm not quite sure wether its outlook or imap server
> problem.
>
> I have tracked down that sometimes when outlook is running and after
> message arrives to imap server , outlook is unable to
> get message from server (Send&Receive preforms its action but delivers
> no new messages). Although reading message same time with some
> other imap client shows that message is there.
> When I close outlook and rerun it works fine again.
> Btw, most of the time it deliveres messages immediately..
>
>
> I have seeked lot  but find nothing yet, maybe someone here has
> experienced that kind of problem and knows answer?
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