on 1/8/04 11:41 PM, Julian Vrieslander at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 1/8/04 9:07 PM, "Charlie Fritzius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> on 1/8/04 8:55 PM, jud spencer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> On 1/8/04 8:50 PM, "Julian Vrieslander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> I've tried many variations of the IMAP settings for my work account on the >>>> server at U of Washington (UW-IMAP, natch). Right now I've got a config >>>> that works OK most of the time. But even though the traffic in this >>>> account >>>> is very low (maybe 5 messages per day), I still get corruption in my client >>>> database every few weeks, requiring advanced rebuild to fix. >>> >>> Hmm., I use a UW-IMAP implementation as well and don't have any problems of >>> the sort. I will say that the UW implementation is perhaps the worst that I >>> have seen. >> >> While I do understand this statement and tend to agree, I find if very odd >> that UW-IMAP's implementation of IMAP is so bad. After all, THEY INVENTED >> IMAP! Why can't they get IMAP right!?!? It just boggles the mind... > > The UW-IMAP developers apparently feel that the problems are in Entourage. > Here is a quote from a website maintained by the UW Computing and Networking > Group: > > <http://www.washington.edu/imap/IMAP-FAQs/> > >>>>>> > 7.39 Why doesn't Entourage work at all? > It's hard to know. Entourage breaks almost every rule in the book for IMAP. > It is highly instructive to do a packet trace on Entourage, as an example of > how _not_ to use IMAP. It does things like STATUS (MESSAGES) on the > currently selected mailbox and re-fetching the same static data over and > over again. > > It seems that every time we understand what it is doing wrong in Entourage > and come up with a workaround, we learn about something else that's broken. > > Try building imapd with the ENTOURAGE_BRAIN_DAMAGE option set, in order to > disable the diagnostic that occurs when doing STATUS on the currently > selected mailbox. >>>>>>
Yes, I've seen this before but according to this: <http://www.washington.edu/imap/IMAP-FAQs/#7.38> The "Microsoft Brain Damage" option has been removed as of imap-2002. I just hope this is better in Entourage 2004! -Charlie -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
