Re: [binc] Problems with Outlook 2000 and 2003
Jonas Mixter <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.imap.binc.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 2005-05-10 18:56, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote: >It's a known problem, and a bug in Outlook. If you try Outlook from the >latest Office packages I believe that this bug has been fixed. It's indeed >a protocol error from Outlook/Outlook Express, and not a Binc IMAP bug. > > So Outlook/Outlook Express uses IDLE mode, which is not supportet by binc, and fails to see that binc does not support it? Is that correct? I think I read that the next version of binc should support idle-mode. What is the status of the development? >If you want to work around the problem, you can increase the idle timeout >to some very high value, around the period that you can guarantee that >users will access their account with their email client. > > Has anyone tried this? What sould be a reasonable value? >But of course, once that's been said, there are many security problems >with using older Outlook and Outlook Express, so there could also be the >option of looking at alternative clients. > > I agree, but unforntunatly I cannot demand that my customers use specific programs or versions. I could just recommend... Best regards, Jonas Mixter