port:imap-uw and mailbox corruption on 10.9.5?

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Mon Jan 12 10:47:06 PST 2015


On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jan 2015, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> > 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?
>

Dovecot is pretty popular these days; it scales well to a couple dozen
users before I'd consider jumping to something like Cyrus.


> 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.
>

Yeh, that sounds like uw keeping things locked.

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