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
>>>>>
>>>>
>> --
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>
>
>
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