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I don't use Outlook Express, but some of my customers do. In my experience it has displayed unpredictable IMAP support.

I just read this in the Dovecot (an awesome IMAP server) configuration file about some workarounds:

  #   delay-newmail:
  #     Send EXISTS/RECENT new mail notifications only when replying to NOOP
  #     and CHECK commands. Some clients ignore them otherwise, for example OSX
  #     Mail (<v2.1). Outlook Express breaks more badly though, without this it
  #     may show user "Message no longer in server" errors. Note that OE6 still
  #     breaks even with this workaround if synchronization is set to
  #     "Headers Only".