discussion</ulink> of the problem there.
</para>
</refsect2>
-
- <refsect2>
- <title>Use with MS Exchange server</title>
- <para>
- Several users have reported problems with Microsoft Exchange
- servers in conjunction with OfflineIMAP. This generally
- seems to be related to the Exchange servers not properly
- following the IMAP standards.
- </para>
- <para>
- Mark Biggers has posted some <ulink
- url="http://lists.complete.org/offlineimap@complete.org/2005/09/msg00011.html.gz">information</ulink>
- to the &OfflineIMAP; mailing list about how he made it work.
- </para>
- <para>
- Other users have indicated that older (5.5) releases of
- Exchange are so bad that they will likely not work at all.
- </para>
- <para>
- I do not have access to Exchange servers for testing, so any
- problems with it, if they can even be solved at all, will
- require help from &OfflineIMAP; users to find and fix.
- </para>
- </refsect2>
-
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Other Frequently Asked Questions</title>
</para>
<variablelist>
- <varlistentry><term>What platforms does &OfflineIMAP; run on?</term>
- <listitem><para>
- It should run on most platforms supported by Python, which are quite a
- few. I do not support Windows myself, but some have made
- it work there; see the FAQ entry for that platform.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
<varlistentry><term>I'm using Mutt. Other IMAP sync programs require me to use "set maildir_trash=yes". Do I need to do that with &OfflineIMAP;?</term>
<listitem><para>
No. &OfflineIMAP; is smart enough to figure out message deletion without this extra
<listitem><para>2 seconds with OfflineIMAP 3.x "held connection"</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem></varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term>Can I use &OfflineIMAP; on Windows?</term>
- <listitem><para>
- These answers have been reported by &OfflineIMAP;
- users. I do not run &OfflineIMAP; on Windows myself, so
- I can't directly address their accuracy.
- </para>
- <para>
- The basic answer is that it's possible and doesn't
- require hacking &OfflineIMAP; source code. However,
- it's not necessarily trivial. The information below is
- based in instructions submitted by Chris Walker.
- </para>
- <para>
- First, you must run &OfflineIMAP; in the <ulink
- url="http://www.cygwin.com/">Cygwin</ulink>
- environment.
- </para>
- <para>
- Next, you'll need to mount your Maildir directory in a
- special way. There is information for doing that at
- <ulink url="http://barnson.org/node/view/295"></ulink>.
- That site gives this example:
- </para>
- <programlisting>
-mount -f -s -b -o managed "d:/tmp/mail" "/home/of/mail"
- </programlisting>
- <para>
- That URL also has more details on making OfflineIMAP
- work with Windows.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>