Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ3i-POP-before-Relay-1.1.pkg.

[Will DeHaan <will@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Microsoft Outlook (all revisions) do not handle IMAP correctly, Cobalt
servers or otherwise.  Use POP with Outlook or switch to Eudora or
Netscape Messenger for IMAP support.  You will need an explicit mail
relay defined for remote IMAP users in the Control Panel -> Email
Parameters form.  POP-before-SMTP relay is, naturally, only for POP
users, existing relay rules hold for all other mail clients.  I'm still
quite confident that IMAP is not affected by the POP-before-SMTP relay
package.  

So... IMAP never worked reliably with Outlook (Express), and you need to
add SMTP relay networks or domains to the Control Panel -> Email
Parameters menu for remote IMAP users so they can send mail.  

We can't encourage MS to fix Outlook, and I don't have plans to extend
POP-before-SMTP relaying to monitor IMAP access as well.  I do like the
trick of adding an extra POP account check to your email client to
enable the SMTP relay window, stick with that if possible.


	-- Will

Steven Werby wrote:
> 
> Will DeHaan <will@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This is surprising as the package modifies POP logging, and sendmail's
> > relay rules but not much else.  No imap changes, no mail folder
> > changes.  You're sure this package affected IMAP access?  Please send me
> > any details directly, specifically /var/log/messages, /var/log/maillog,
> > email client error notices, etc...
> 
> Here are some posts I made at the beginning of November that might explain
> better.
> http://list.cobalt.com/oldlist/cobalt-users/msg07277.html (1st message in
> thread)
> http://list.cobalt.com/oldlist/cobalt-users/msg07282.html
> 
> My problem could have been in my client email program (outlook express).  I
> believe I could receive email, but I couldn't send without using a
> workaround of POPing to a POP account on my server first.  I no longer have
> log files from November, but I may be able to re-install the latest version
> available of the package and report back.  Will that help?
> 
> I greatly appreciate the patches/upgrades/packages that you and the rest of
> the Cobalt engineers make available.  This one was particularly useful and
> if I can get it to work right for my clients and I for IMAP accounts it's
> going back on the box.
> 
> Steven {steven@xxxxxxxxxxxx}
> 
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