dovecot - Dec 2003 - Outlook 2002 sp-2 and initial connection after OS reboot

I have a strange problem that I have been experienceing with dovecot:

Dovecot version : 0.99.10.4-1 Using IMAP: 

When I restart the OS (windows XP)  and open up Outlook 2002 SP2  I
don't automatically get my IMAP folders on the DOVECOT imap server.
(the one on the uw_imap server open up straight away) 

When I click on inbox I cam given a message saying : unable to connect
to imap folders 

When highlight the inbox and go to "file"  "connect to <imap
server>"
I get the error again.. "unable to connect to imap folders" 

If I just leave Outlook open for a while the folders mysteriously
connect themselves. 

Has anybody seen this before and does anybody have any ideas on what to
do to fix things.  Is this an Outlook problem or a dovecot problem?   I
searched the archives and theres been nothing recently about this kind
of problem. 

I need to get this system running in production very soon. 

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David Crisp   IT Systems Administrator   WSL Consultants Pty Ltd
dcrisp at wsl.com.au   2-8 Harvey Street  Richmond Vic  3121  Australia
Phone: +61 3 9429 4666   Fax: +61 3 9429 2294   Web: www.wsl.com.au


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On 29.12.2003, at 07:43, David Crisp wrote:
> When I restart the OS (windows XP)  and open up Outlook 2002 SP2  I
> don't automatically get my IMAP folders on the DOVECOT imap server.
> (the one on the uw_imap server open up straight away)
>
> When I click on inbox I cam given a message saying : unable to connect
> to imap folders
Does it even try to connect to server? You could check with tcpdump or 
something similiar.

Is there anything in Dovecot's log files? What about after enabling 
auth_verbose = yes?

Do you use SSL? Does it work without?
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Hi Timo,

Thanks for your response.   After a little bit more research here is
what I found: 

1)   Im not using SSL at the moment.   I intend to,  but for the moment
I want things to WORK  before adding an extra layer of complexty into
the situation. 

2)   I have a laptop that seems to consistantly fail to connect.    I
have run TCPDUMP on the Debian Linux server running dovecot and I get NO
traffic between the outlook client and the linux box from that machine
at all when opening outlook.      If I go to file connect to in outlook
I can connect to the IMAP server,  and if I leave it for a while it will
automatically connect, but It wont connect automatically as soon as
outlook is open. 

3)  Dovecots files don't say much other than :
		
	imap-login: Jan 14 10:02:44 Info: Login: dcrisp [90.0.0.68]

I'm stumped as to what is happening here. 

It LOOKS like its an OUTLOOK problem.  However it works fine with the
OTHER imap server we have which is on a different linux box.   

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David Crisp   IT Systems Administrator   WSL Consultants Pty Ltd
dcrisp at wsl.com.au   2-8 Harvey Street Richmond Vic  3121  Australia
Phone: +61 3 9429 4666   Fax: +61 3 9429 2294   Web: www.wsl.com.au



 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss at iki.fi] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 6 January 2004 2:29 PM
> To: dcrisp at wsl.com.au
> Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Outlook 2002 sp-2 and initial 
> connection after OS reboot
> 
> 
> On 29.12.2003, at 07:43, David Crisp wrote:
> 
> > When I restart the OS (windows XP)  and open up Outlook 2002 SP2  I 
> > don't automatically get my IMAP folders on the DOVECOT imap
server.
> > (the one on the uw_imap server open up straight away)
> >
> > When I click on inbox I cam given a message saying : unable 
> to connect 
> > to imap folders
> 
> Does it even try to connect to server? You could check with 
> tcpdump or 
> something similiar.
> 
> Is there anything in Dovecot's log files? What about after enabling 
> auth_verbose = yes?
> 
> Do you use SSL? Does it work without?
> 

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