Unofficial IMAP Support Thread

Unofficial IMAP Support Thread

Guys - great work on getting IMAP out. It is well received and will be a great feature as it progresses through beta and into final stages.

Since its in beta there are bound to be some kinks that need to be worked out and I was hoping to get some help with a few.

  1. Disconnect - I'm repeatedly getting the error that Outlook can't connect to imap.zoho.com. It did work for a while, then the connection got dropped and Outlook is now freezing and crashing and I don't know if it's because Outlook keeps trying to connect to imap.zoho.com or something else. (XP, Outlook 2007) Is the crashing and inability to connect something that I am doing wrong or is it a bug in the IMAP server?
  2. Blackberry - I switched from POP access on my blackberry (via pop.zoho.com) to imap using the Verizon BIS and while POP worked fine, I can't seem to send or receive emails from the blackberry device. They are marked as being sent, but I don't receive them anywhere (I find it odd that the BIS doesn't require SMTP protocol information).
Also - I thought it would be helpful if somewhere on the wiki were posted "best practice" setup help for zoho IMAP. Because IMAP is a more complicated protocol, it would be helpful to know what the best settings are - and I would imagine the most common clients are Thunderbird and Outlook. Several questions I have are:
  1. Where is the best place to save Sent Items - will they automatically sync with the server (like gmail) or do we have to set Outlook to save them in the IMAP "Sent Items" folder
  2. How does Zoho IMAP handle deleted/purged emails? Should they be marked for deletion, then purged?
  3. When sending from a mobile device, will the sent items be saved into the server
Overall, it's a great big step forward and as users we appreciate all the hard work that goes into this stuff.

-James