mozilla and courier-imap

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004, Radek Kozlowski wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 12:50:22PM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote:
>> I'm using the most recent ports for mozilla and courier-imap on an 
>> up-to-date FreeBSD-stable.  Very often I will not see new messages in a 
>> folder until I restart mozilla.  I was convinced it was mozilla that was 
>> broken, but I've seen similar behavior using Thunderbird on my Windows 
>> box.  Now I'm not so sure.
>> 
>> Anyone else seen this?
>> 
>> What is another decent IMAP client in ports?
>
>I had the same problem with Thunderbird (both on FreeBSD and Windows)
>and I blamed Mozilla. But then I was told that Courier-IMAP is not very
>standards-compliant IMAP implementation and tried Dovecot (mail/dovecot)
>instead. It turned out that Courier was the one to blame. With Dovecot
>Thunderbird was showing mail like it should. FWIW, I don't have any
>problems with it in mutt+imap either.

If you configure courier-imap there's an option to work around
these issues.

	./configure --enable-workarounds-for-imap-client-bugs ...

Bill
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