I am on Freebsd, and I needed to do nothing more than pkg delete the uw version and then pkg add panda-imap. So far, so good, lets see if this goes better or if I will need to investigate other options.
Brian On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 7:59 AM, David B Funk <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>> ________________________ >>> >>> >>> 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 >>>> >>> > -- > Dave Funk University of Iowa > <dbfunk (at) engineering.uiowa.edu> College of Engineering > 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center > Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_admin Iowa City, IA 52242-1527 > #include <std_disclaimer.h> > Better is not better, 'standard' is better. B{
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