mozilla and courier-imap

[cpghost at cordula.ws]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 07:47:55PM +0200, 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.

No problems with cyrus-imap and mutt(+esmtp). Thunderbird also works
as it should with cyrus-imap. Didn't test Courier though.

> -Radek

-cpghost.

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