I have been using the panda fork for awhile successfully now. root@numail:~ # pkg info | grep imap panda-imap-20130621 IMAP4rev1/POP2/POP3 mail servers forked from imap-uw
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Brian W. <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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