Re: UW-Imap on Solaris

Joel Reicher <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> All this time, I've been using it on Linux.  Now, I'm building a Solaris 
> server, and I'd like to put it on it.  I ran across a post the other day on 
> the internet saying that it doesn't work very well on Solaris due to file 
> locking problems, and that the cause is really an underlying problem with 
> Unix.
> 
> Is there any truth to this?  Or more appropriately, am I likely to run into 
> more headaches than what it is worth if I try to use it on Solaris?

Can you give more details of the post?

There is a known problem with NFS for the simple reason that NFS doesn't
support locking, and it is possible that the post confused NFS with
SunOS/Solaris.

Cheers,

	- Joel
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