David,

courier-imap can be configured with the option
'--enable-workarounds-for-imap-client-bugs' which, as it says enables
courier-imap to work with broken IMAP clients including Netscape and Outlook.


Hope this helps,

Del.


David Dyer-Bennet wrote:

> Tim Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 10 April 2000 at 09:34:47 -0400
>
>  > After I moved my server to Maidirs I also implemented courier-imap by
>  > inter7(www.inter7.com/courierimap) I just checked the site and its up to
>  > 0.30something, I am still using 0.27 with huge success, it is hardly
>  > noticeable even on my old slow mailserver.
>  >
>  > There is reasonably good documentation, but its pretty intuitive to setup
>  > and I had little problems, there even is a blurb about configuring common
>  > clients.
>
> After reading on the inter7 web pages about Courier IMAP, I got the
> impression that it wasn't going to work right for clients using
> Outlook or Netscape.  Based on that, I eliminated it from
> consideration; what's the point of something that doesn't support two
> such major products?  Am I taking the problems more seriously than I
> should?
>
> (I also read some about *why* it didn't work, and it sounds like those
> products are "broken" and Courier IMAP is "right".  I understand the
> author's position.  But that still leaves me not seeing why I should
> install it.)
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