Re: [TCLUG:8661] Mutt & IMAP

["John R. Sheets" <dusk@ravendusk.org>]

On Sep 28, 1999, Tim Wilson <wilson@chemsun.chem.umn.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, John R. Sheets wrote:
> 
> > On Sep 27, 1999, Dan Mack <mack@sgi.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 04:43:30PM -0500, Clayton T. Fandre wrote:
> > > > Anyone using IMAP w/ Mutt? Has it been improved lately?
> > > 
> > > Yep, I've been using it for a couple weeks now.  Works great.
> > 
> > Stay away from GroupWise, though!
> 
> Could you elaborate on that? I've been trying off and on for a couple
> weeks to get Netscape Messenger to connect to our school's Groupwise email
> via IMAP. Is there something about Groupwise that I should know?

We have it here at work, and about the only reliable client is NetWare's
own mail client.  Communicator 4.x sorta works, but it can only retrieve
one email at a time.  Mutt just locks up when it tries to connect to a
GroupWise mailbox.  I do believe that Communicator 3.x will work, though.

One possible theory of the problem is that it's somehow getting the size
of the emails wrong.  Perhaps Communicator 4.x is able to recover from it
enough to save that first mail, while Communicator 3.x doesn't even notice, 
and goes on its merry way like a cute little puppy dog.  All 100% supposition, 
of course.  (c:

The quick version is that GroupWise acts very flaky with all but its own
mailers.  Grumble grumble.

John