On Wednesday, 28 April 2021 13:49:03 CDT Steve Dondley wrote: > I repeatedly have a hell of a time getting clients' Outlook software > working well with Dovecot. It's hard for me to test myself since I don't > have Outlook and it would be impossible to keep up with all the > different versions anyway. > > [snip] > > It always seems to be hit or miss with outlook as to which encryption > setting to use, which port to try, etc. With a recent client, I couldn't > get them successfully logged in no matter what manual settings we tried. > If someone can give me some tips on how to get most versions of Outlook > cooperating well with Dovecot, I'd appreciate it. > Your best bet to make Outlook behave better as an IMAP client is to configure a mail "profile" via Control Pannel --> User Accounts --> Mail, and set all the particulars there. Recent versions of Outlook have a stripped down configuration interface that offers no flexibility. For example, from Outlook itself it's not possible to set an IMAP login name that's not an email address.
-- Greg