Outlook support for IMAP is extremely poor. Some bit of magic dust that can make Outlook stop sucking so badly as Why does MS keep pretending Outlook has IMAP support? Is there Is an inherent problem with IMAP and Outlook 2013. Users using Gmail, and ISP email services. Resulted in countless issues being experienced, troubleshooted,Ĭomplained about and not resolved. Implemented IMAP support within the Outlook program, which has With the release of Outlook 2013, Microsoft changed how they had Starts getting unsynced around 1-2 months of usage Upon reading forums, I've noticed that Outlook If you delete your IMAP account and re-add the account, it will
Similar symptoms or people that say that Outlook doesn't play well with IMAP AboutĪ third of the time I just delete the account and create a new one Then, sometime after only aĬouple weeks, I get calls I've been able to move some to
Is there a way to make Outlook 2016 reliable with IMAP? I set it up That's also very valuable for me or anyone else that will face this problem. That will not solve my problem but at least I will not loose more time trying to fit a square protocol in a round client. I hope my google-fu has betrayed me and there is some hidden setting or workaround somewhere.īut if the combination of Outlook+IMAP has proven similarly unreliable for you too, then please +1 the relevant comment below this question (or share your experience if you have something more to add).
The reason I'm posting here is that no one offers a solution (except from either ditching Outlook or switching from IMAP to exchange/MAPI). Today I decided to google about it and I found plenty of cases with exactly the same or similar symptoms. But in a few weeks it will fail again.ĭuring the last 3 years I've seen this happening on three completely different IMAP servers and on at least a dozen of different PCs. Reinstalling Outlook or after some similar "erase-and-recreate-everything" Most of the time I can fix Outlook by deleting and recreating the account or Thunderbird or various Android mail clients). When Outlook stops syncing the same account keeps syncing justįine to other clients (e.g. Initially Outlook works fine but after some weeks it stops syncing. I have dozens of cases of Outlook + IMAP where I see this behavior:
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