Can I use Cyrus IMAP w/Outlook?

[David Lang]

Paul, I recently took a look at useing thunderbird 1.0 with IMAP and found 
that it was storing a lot of info locally, is it really that good an IMAP 
client?

David Lang

  On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Paul Dekkers wrote:

> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:17:10 +0100
> From: Paul Dekkers <Paul.Dekkers at surfnet.nl>
> To: Thomas Kessler <audiocollage at sbcglobal.net>
> Cc: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: Re: Can I use Cyrus IMAP w/Outlook?
> 
> Thomas Kessler wrote:
>
>> Can I use Cyrus IMAP w/Outlook? Is this even possible? I setup Cyrus 
>> assuming that I could, but I haven’t been able to find any saying that is 
>> works, just that Insight Server application that works with Cyrus IMAP. If 
>> I can’t use Cyrus with Outlook, can someone recommend an IMAP server that 
>> will?
>> 
> Of course you can use it. It's not the best IMAP client in the world (I would 
> rather use (and support) Mozilla/Thunderbird ;-) or, ok, maybe even rather 
> Outlook Express then Outlook because of its IMAP support), but it surely 
> works. Just set up an IMAP account with the correct account info & 
> credentials.
>
> Paul
>
> P.S. If authentication fails against the Cyrus server you should probably 
> tune your sasl_mech_list to something like "PLAIN LOGIN" depending on your 
> backend ofcourse.
>
>
>
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