mozilla and courier-imap

[Radek Kozlowski]

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.

-Radek