On 12/04/2012 12:12 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Marco van Hulten writes:
>
>> Op zo 02 dec 2012 18:53:03 CET schreef Sam:
>> > There have been occasional reports of some kind of a problem with libfam in
>> > Debian that's causing this, with the actual cause being unknown.
>> >
>> > Rebuilding courier-imap against Gamin, instead of FAM, usually fixes this.
>>
>> Thank you Sam, the problem is fixed, thanks to this hint. But a funny
>> thing is that Gamin was installed and not FAM. When I did an "apt-get
>> install fam libfam-dev" which automatically removed Gamin, imap worked
>> again. Thus there seemed to be a problem with Gamin, while FAM works
>> fine (on my system).
>>
>> So, for folk having trouble with reading the maildir after they managed
>> to login through imap, switching from Gamin to FAM or the other way
>> around is a good idea to try out!
>
> How did you install Courier-IMAP? Did you build it from source, or install a
> precompiled package?
> It's possible that the precompiled package gets built against libfam which is
> likely not to be binary ABI-compatible with gamin,
> even though the .so symbols are the same. So, imapd binds with the .so, but
> the binary ABI incompatibility is breaking everything. This might be one
> explanation.
>
The official Debian packages are indeed build against libfam.
Regards
Racke
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