Re: Courier IMAP - Outlook 2003

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (16/02/06 09:39), Serhan D. KIYMAZ wrote:
> A few weeks ago I've installed qmail, courier-imap, vpopmail, tcpserver 
> for my company to send/receive emails.
> Everything is fine with Kmail and Thunderbid. It's possible to 
> send/receive mails, reach virtual shared folders.
> But when Outlook 2003 and Outlook Express clients want to check mail, 
> they get following error:
> "A connection to the server can not be established. mail.xxx.com.tr is now
> offline mode"
> Anyone got an idea about this problem? How can I fix this?
> Is this an Outlook oriented problem or is there something wrong about my 
> installation?
> Regards

I use dovecot which has specific workarounds for Outlook:

#   outlook-idle:
#     Outlook and Outlook Express never abort IDLE command, so if no
#     mail
#     arrives in half a hour, Dovecot closes the connection. This is
#     still
#     fine, except Outlook doesn't connect back so you don't see if new
#     mail
#     arrives.
#   outlook-pop3-no-nuls:
#     Outlook and Outlook Express hang if mails contain NUL characters.
#     This setting replaces them with 0x80 character.
client_workarounds = outlook-idle
client_workarounds = outlook-pop3-no-nuls

perhaps courier has something similar

Regards

Clive

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