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  • October 26, 2003 at 1:52 am #356672
    runtimelogic
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    I bought an XServe a couple months ago to use as an application server for a project I’m working on, but I decided a couple days ago to set it up as a replacement email server as well. It will replace my old B&W G3 running Mac OS X 10.2.4 / Postfix / UW IMAP since it likes to crash a lot and does not have battery backup like my new server.

    My XServe shipped with OS X Server 10.2 which I have upgraded to OS X Server 10.2.8. I have relatively simple mail needs so I thought I would go with the default solution of AMS and the built in IMAP service. It was easy to set up and I have no problem sending outgoing mail, and retrieving incoming mail via IMAP. The problem I’m having is that when I click on an attchment in Eudora to save it, Eudora downloads the attachment via IMAP but then complains that it is unable to decode it. To see if there was an issue with the way the attachments were being recieved or stored by AMS, I turned on the POP service and retrieved the same message with attachment in tow and Eudora had no problems decoding with this retrieval method.

    It’s not purely an issue of IMAP support in Eudora since my exisitng setup of postfix and UW IMAP works fine with attachments.

    Any help on this would be GREATLY appreciated since I’m at the end of my debugging ideas now, and this is the only thing preventing me from making the switch over. Of course, I could always go out and buy OS X Server 10.3 for $1000, which may fix the issue, but since I just bought the XServe a couple months ago, I’m not quite that ready to sell my soul to Apple yet. 😉

    Thanks!

    October 29, 2003 at 7:50 pm #356695
    runtimelogic
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    So no one has anything for me on this problem? Am I the only one who has had this issue? Am I the only one who is still using Eudora? I tried Apple’s Mail app when Jaguar first came out and found it didn’t have a rich enough feature set for my needs. Are there any other email clients for Mac OS X that have good IMAP support that I should look into? Do people think this is the fault of Eduora and not Apple’s IMAP service?

    I’ll try fetching attachemnts from Apple’s Mail client and let you know if that is successful.

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