On 02/09/2013 08:41, doug wrote:
On Sat, 31 Aug 2013, Reko Turja wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Frank Leonhardt
FWIW I'm using Dovecote 1 or 2 for the IMAP. In particular, Dovecot
1 with Squirrelmail has been really hammered, but has never broken.
I sometimes get time-outs copying thousands of emails in one hit,
but that's fair enough and nothing has ever been lost. Could the
server be the problem in your case? I found the standard imapd did
weird things for a lot of clients, and making the switch after many
years of trying to blame the client software was a really good
decision.
Running Cyrus here for ages, it might be a bit of pain to set up, but
it's been a really bulletproof and "zero maintenance" solution. The
problems cannot be replicated on any other client, only Squirrel has
those problems with mail not showing up.
-Reko
We run postfix/cyrus mail servers. My experience with messages not
showing up happens with Outlook (versions 2003, 2007, and 2013),
squirrelmail, and mac mail. In all cases reported, the user can find
messages either by sorting by date or by searching on some matching
criteria. We put this in our FAQ. I have not noticed this issue with a
server using sendmail/dovecot.
That's pretty much my experience too. You start off by blaming the
client software until it shows up shows up on more than one platform. I
used to believe that imapd, part of the base system, must be
"definitive" and beyond reproach. Ha!
I don't know so much about the others, but Dovecot is full of
work-arounds for various IMAP clients to cope with bugs or variations
from the IMAP specification. You can spend forever arguing about which
interpretation of a spec is correct but I just want it to work. (Except
that Microsoft is glaringly wrong).
Dovecot is really easy to install, and migrate form the base system (I
don't know about from Cyrus), and I wish I'd been steered towards it
earlier (which is why I'm evangelising it here). Incidentally, I have no
reason to believe Dovecot 2 is any less robust than Dovecot 1 - it's
just that I've really hammered Dovecot 1 for several years longer than
the newer version.
Regards, Frank.
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