On Monday January 12 2015 09:49:58 Daniel J. Luke wrote:

Hi,

> I stopped running uw-imap that a long time ago because of similar issues 
> (data corruption especially under high load) and also because of a series of 
> security issues that happened one after another (that I got sick of dealing 
> with/patching).

Hmm, as I said, I've used this same version for years on OS X 10.6 without 
issues, and months together with kmail. I guess I should disable my local 
account in kmail and run another client (sylpheed :)) to see if that also gives 
issues or if the KDE PIM imap agent is the culprit.
Truth is that I don't get incoming mail other than cron output in my local 
inbox, so it's not like it's an end of the world issue ;)

> Do you have an example of the corruption? IIRC procmail version 3.21 would 
> sometimes eat the 'F' from a 'From ' line in mbox file (but I think recent 
> Mac OS X versions ship with procmail 3.22).

No, the first 64 or so bytes get replaced with garbage, as if there's a buffer 
overflow when rewriting the imap folder header.

> dovecot works really well as an imap server (well enough that I haven't had 
> to switch from mbox files to something else). If it's only happening to your 
> INBOX, though, you may have an lda issue instead of an IMAP server issue.

Last time I tried to run something other than UW imapd I couldn't get it set 
up. Also, I patched the UW imapd to support per-user configuration files that 
specify the location of the mail folders tree, rather than offloading that to 
the client (which may not have an imap prefix path feature). 

R.
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