[Imap-protocol] IMAP Server issue with Outlook 2003

[Dan Karp]

> I'm implementing an IMAP server in Java (actually reading lotus notes
> nsf archives files and making their content available through an IMAP
> server), and am facing an issue when using (e.g. debugging) it with
> Outlook 2003.
> 
> I simply can't download any message :) everything behave as expected,
> no error message, but outlook simply can't display the message.
> 
> Most probably, my server is not fully following the IMAP protocol, I
> read the RFC3501 couple of times but couldn't find anything wrong.

Among the issues here are that "FETCH 2:*" must match the last message in the mailbox (though it appears that Outlook is working around this) and that the format on your INTERNALDATE is incorrect.