----- Original Message ----- From: "twk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 9:02 PM
> Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I have been trying for the past while to successfully use Outlook Express with > > Cyrus. > > The main problem I've run into is the message synchronization in Outlook. > > > > No matter whether it's set to synchronize all messages, new messages only, or > > headers only, Outlook seems to find a new way to screw up. > > > > e.g., > > sync all - no new messages appear > > sync new messages only - message read state is not saved properly > > sync headers only - message is marked as read and deleted!? > > > > What is going on here... > > > > Does anyone have this setup and working properly? > > From looking at the archives, there seem to be a lot of problems. > > > > I have tried Outlook 5.5, 6, and various releases of Cyrus from 1.6.22 to 2.0.16 > > > > and Linux distros Redhat 6.2 and Mandrake 8.1. > > I have also tried to get the seen state updating properly by trying linux kernel > > 2.4.18, and changing seen_db.c by commenting out the if() after line 133 - > > "/* if this is the db we've already opened, return it */" > > > > Nothing seems to work... I would appreciate any suggestions from anyone who > > has or hasn't got this combination working, > > > > > It sounds like a problem specifically with syncronization rather than Outlook > Express in general. We have Outlook Express users on campus and I don't hear > many complaints. Our users probably rarely use the syncronization > capability....it is probably not necessary unless your users are disconnecting > from the network. Certainly works for me (in fact I'm using OE 6 to send this, but I also use kmail and squirrelmail as well 8). Only strange quirk I found was that I had to create all the parent folders in a tree, eg I couldn't just have a folder x.y.z I had to actually have x and x.y as well. Cheers, Chris
