on 2-12-2009 3:31 PM Maarten Bezemer spake the following: > > On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Scott Silva wrote: > >> on 2-12-2009 10:35 AM Maarten Bezemer spake the following: > >>> Outlook DOES store some kind of cache of IMAP mail in a PST. And that >>> PST is always located in the Local Settings directory, regardless of >>> your system-wide default location of PSTs. >>> I don't know what happens when this cache PST reaches its 2GB limit... >>> >> It would take a LOT of messages to cache 2 GB of headers. > > I've seen users with about 1GB worth of Maildir folders and some 800MB > of IMAP cache PST. So it might not be headers only in there... > >>> (Running the etch-backports 1.0.15 version of dovecot-imapd currently) >> 1.1 seems to be slightly better with Outlook, or at least my Outlook >> users >> haven't been complaining as much. They could be resolved to the fact >> that it >> just doesn't work very well. You won't find it in any Debian repo that >> I know of. > > I can see 1.1.9-1 in Experimental, but nog even in Unstable yet. So I'm > not ready to try it on production machines. > > The 'missing mail' in the 'hide messages marked for deletion' setting > seems to be persistent. Closing Outlook for the night and then > restarting it in the morning still doesn't show the messages although > they still are there on the server and also visible normally in webmail. > (Using imap all the way, I don't recall if I mentioned that explicitly). > Strangest thing about this is that it only seems to happen when an email > is read first through webmail. Not always, only just once every few weeks. > Possible something in the headers or flags triggers some weirdness in > Outlook, making it believe the message is marked for deletion. > >> Do you have outlook-idle set in the config file for pop3 and IMAP? > > Not using pop3 at all, but outlook-idle is set for the imap protocol. > > Regards, > Maarten > I just found this; http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=736 I guess Outlook 2003 introduced a newer version of the PST files that has a 20GB (twenty GB ) limit, but they have to be created with 2003, and they are not backward compatible.
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