On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Eric Luyten wrote: > > Just looking at the possibility of using "server mode" for qpopper to solve > > the above mentioned problem, but would I be right in thinking that its then > > unsafe to have uw-imap providing imap access to the same mail spools ? > > Yes ! > > We (25,000 users, 65 GB of mailboxes, mixed POP3 and IMAP4 spool access > with a few shell users thrown in for good measure) are bitten by this a > couple of times per week.
Remember that UW (University of Washington) "imap" also includes a pop daemon and a local delivery agent. We (marginally smaller-scale organisation) used to run qpopper, uw-imap and Sun /bin/mail delivery. Likewise, we suspected we had problems from this "pick'n'mix", probably caused by inconsistent locking. So a few years ago we then switched our pop and local-delivery to the UW products, with their consistent c-client library code. To the best of our knowledge such problems have disappeared. -- : David Lee I.T. Service : : Systems Programmer Computer Centre : : University of Durham : : http://www.dur.ac.uk/t.d.lee/ South Road : : Durham : : Phone: +44 191 374 2882 U.K. :
