Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 13:17:13 +0200 From: cpghost@cordula.ws To: Radek Kozlowski <radek@raadradd.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mozilla and courier-imap Message-ID: <20040814111713.GA681@bsdbox.farid-hajji.net> In-Reply-To: <20040813174755.GA30993@werd> References: <411CF14E.4030203@criticalmagic.com> <20040813174755.GA30993@werd>
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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. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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