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Andrew Clarke
I am running a UW IMAP server on my linux computer and am using that to
check my email. I am checking 2 IMAP accounts on there, each with maybe 10
mailboxes. I use Procmail to forward mail into some of those mailboxes, so
new mail may appear in boxes other than the Inbox. I have a couple
questions and issues with Outlook. I've looked around but haven't been able
to find solutions to these questions yet:
1. I don't consistently get notification of new email in folders other than
the inbox. Is there a way to do this?
2. Outlook hangs up OFTEN on me. It will either hang up with a notice
saying "Send/Receive 79% complete" or something like that, or it will hang
with a little timer rotating in the bottom right corner. All there is to do
then is to right click on it in the toolbar and close it (it generates an
error when I try to close it). I've set the IMAP server timeouts all the
way from the shortest to the longest time but it doesn't seem to affect it.
3. I get popups fairly often telling me that my IMAP session has timed out.
4. I have several folders showing up on my folder list that DON'T EXIST on
my server. I can't figure out how to get rid of them! I've also confused
it by making a folder named, say, LettersFromMom, and then going into my
account and turning LettersFromMom into a directory (which in the UW IMAP
server can't contain both subfolders and email) and creating a couple
folders in there. Then I go back to Outlook, and Outlook still thinks there
are 44 messages in LettersFromMom, but of course I can't open them or delete
them since they don't really exist. And whenever I try to delete the file I
get an error, or else it just crashes Outlook. Then if I go and delete them
manually, Outlook still thinks they're there. It's very frustrating.
5. I don't believe there's any way around this, but is there a way of
sharing contact and calendar info with IMAP? It's great for keeping my
email in sync over my various computers, but I wish there was a way of doing
the same with the rest of the info.
Thank you very much to anybody who has the time and energy to help me out
with any of these questions.
- Andrew Clarke.
check my email. I am checking 2 IMAP accounts on there, each with maybe 10
mailboxes. I use Procmail to forward mail into some of those mailboxes, so
new mail may appear in boxes other than the Inbox. I have a couple
questions and issues with Outlook. I've looked around but haven't been able
to find solutions to these questions yet:
1. I don't consistently get notification of new email in folders other than
the inbox. Is there a way to do this?
2. Outlook hangs up OFTEN on me. It will either hang up with a notice
saying "Send/Receive 79% complete" or something like that, or it will hang
with a little timer rotating in the bottom right corner. All there is to do
then is to right click on it in the toolbar and close it (it generates an
error when I try to close it). I've set the IMAP server timeouts all the
way from the shortest to the longest time but it doesn't seem to affect it.
3. I get popups fairly often telling me that my IMAP session has timed out.
4. I have several folders showing up on my folder list that DON'T EXIST on
my server. I can't figure out how to get rid of them! I've also confused
it by making a folder named, say, LettersFromMom, and then going into my
account and turning LettersFromMom into a directory (which in the UW IMAP
server can't contain both subfolders and email) and creating a couple
folders in there. Then I go back to Outlook, and Outlook still thinks there
are 44 messages in LettersFromMom, but of course I can't open them or delete
them since they don't really exist. And whenever I try to delete the file I
get an error, or else it just crashes Outlook. Then if I go and delete them
manually, Outlook still thinks they're there. It's very frustrating.
5. I don't believe there's any way around this, but is there a way of
sharing contact and calendar info with IMAP? It's great for keeping my
email in sync over my various computers, but I wish there was a way of doing
the same with the rest of the info.
Thank you very much to anybody who has the time and energy to help me out
with any of these questions.
- Andrew Clarke.