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
>>>>
>>>
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