We've been working closely with UW - they've provided us with some very useful feedback. I think we've made some good progress towards getting the braindamaged part out of their faq :)
On 1/9/04 1:18:14 PM, "Charlie Fritzius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/>
