port:imap-uw and mailbox corruption on 10.9.5?

[Dave Horsfall]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2015, Brandon Allbery wrote:

> IIRC uw-imapd went from keeping the mailbox locked (low/no corruption, 
> but clients error out a lot because they reasonably expect concurrent 
> access) to locking only when "necessary" (gets it wrong a lot, partly 
> due to concurrent delivery by MTAs, high corruption), as email volume 
> increased from the fairly low levels when it was first written. In 
> either mode it's a pretty lousy server even for single user use. BITD it 
> was acceptable, but email is much higher volume these days and there are 
> much more appropriate IMAP servers.

As one who has struggled with UW-IMAPD for a while now, can you recommend 
any in particular?

My situation is mail being stored on my FreeBSD server (accepted with 
Sendmail), and read there with Alpine; I SSH into it from the MacBook.

I'd like to set up tasks on the Mac to email myself on the FreeBSD box (I 
loathe gooey MUAs with a passion), but the moment I start iMail (or 
whatever it's called), it pulls the rug out from underneath Alpine.  I 
merely want to send mail from the Mac, not read it there.

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