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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>
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</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
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<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>