IMAP viewed from Outlook

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Hi!I experience the simple yet serious problem. Server Domino Linux IMAP. Client M$ Outlook.

If a user deletes a message, it just scored out, but not actually deleted.

The similar problem was reported in http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd8forum.nsf/5f27803bba85d8e285256bf10054620d/096191e4948c5198852574970072f26d?OpenDocument

Anyone having a clue?

Thanks in advance.

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Subject: [SOLVED] [NOT A BUG]

I’ve made a small investigation.The problem is in the broken client (Microsoft Outlook).

with reference on the RFC2060:

  1. Outlook marks messages with \Deleted flag

  2. never sends CLOSE nor EXPUNGE command

  3. just LOGOUT command

Bottom-line

Outlook never send a command to actually delete messages, and it doesn’t hide messages marked \Delete. That’s why:

Outlook is a very BAD as the IMAP client. Blame Microsoft.