Have you tried the "Panda IMAP" distro?
https://github.com/jonabbey/panda-imap
The mailbox locking problem can be avoided by using an alternate form of
mailbox (such as MIX) instead of the traditional mbox. Of course this
won't work in an environment that requires local direct access to the
mailbox by non-C-client aware mail clients. If you can switch to MIX
format there are many advantages (performance, scale-ability, backup
facilitation, etc).
However if you do switch to MIX be -sure- to run the Panda distro, there
were some unfixed bugs in the UW-imap distro that can bite you.
After Mark left UW he started his own company with a fork of the UW-imap
which he called "Panda" and then started developing a commercial product
from there.
He kept Panda alive and semi-open sourced, making bug-fixes and adding
some small improvements (I know from conversations I had with him in '09
about a UW-imap bug I found/fixed ). He made it available to people who
explicitly asked him for it.
After his death people took the last known version of Panda and turned it
into a github project and made additional improvements to it (I
contributed one of them ;).
On Sat, 1 Aug 2015, brian wrote:
as expected, thanx for confirming.
Brian
On 8/1/2015 1:25 AM, Chris Bunch wrote:
I have been running a UW_IMAP server on Mac OS X mainly for family
accounts for around 12 years. We are all Mac/iOS users: we noted early on
that UW_IMAP doesn't cope well with more than one client logged into an
account at the same time. When the most any of us had was two machines
(home/office or home/laptop) that was relatively easy to manage but when
iOS came along(iPhones, iPads) came along things began to unravel and the
situation became unworkable. iPhones never stayed in sync with the server,
though I have not seen the specific corruption you mention.
I am now in the process of transferring family accounts to Fastmail and am
setting up Dovecot on Linode/Ubuntu for a few other accounts I manage.
Sadly, UW_IPAD’s future died with Mark Crispin.
C
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On 22 Jul 2015, at 08:57, brian <[email protected]> wrote:
One of the users on my freebsd server that runs uw imap has an
intermittent problem with inbox corruption. Is a fix planned? I see others
have had this issue already. I am essentially seeing this
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557103 though on
Freebsd.
Brian
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