Re: inbox corruption by iphone

Larry Stone <[email protected]> Sat, 1 Aug 2015 07:07:20 -0700
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I had the same arrangement and experience as Chris. Didn=E2=80=99t see =
corruption - just the iOS clients didn=E2=80=99t stay synchronized =
(specifically, failed to pick up status changes made by other clients - =
message correctly seen as unread, message then read by another client, =
iOS client continued to show message as unread until actually read on =
the iOS client). Switched to Dovecot a couple of years back and have =
never looked back.

The good news was it was fairly easy and Dovecot proved to be a =
=E2=80=9Cdrop-in=E2=80=9D replacement provided you leave the mail in =
mbox format and point Dovecot to where UW-IMAP had it (I later converted =
to Maildir but there is no need to do so initially - mbox is not the =
preferred format for Dovecot but it will handle it just fine). There is =
no need to use Dovecot=E2=80=99s delivery agent, at least right away =
(there are performance reasons to do so but a low-volume server will be =
fine without it).

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Larry Stone
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> On Aug 1, 2015, at 1:27 AM, brian <[email protected]> wrote:
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> as expected, thanx for confirming.
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> Brian
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> On 8/1/2015 1:25 AM, Chris Bunch wrote:
>> I have been running a UW_IMAP server  on Mac OS X mainly for family =
accounts for around 12 years. We are all Mac/iOS users: we noted early =
on that UW_IMAP doesn't cope well with more than one client logged into =
an account at the same time. When the most any of us had was two =
machines (home/office or home/laptop) that was relatively easy to manage =
but when iOS came along(iPhones, iPads) came along things began to =
unravel and the situation became unworkable. iPhones never stayed in =
sync with the server, though I have not seen the specific corruption you =
mention.
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>> I am now in the process of transferring family accounts to Fastmail =
and am setting up Dovecot on Linode/Ubuntu for a few other accounts I =
manage. Sadly, UW_IPAD=E2=80=99s future died with Mark Crispin.
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>> C
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>>> On 22 Jul 2015, at 08:57, brian <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> One of the users on my freebsd server that runs uw imap has an =
intermittent problem with inbox corruption. Is a fix planned? I see =
others have had this issue already. I am essentially seeing this =
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D557103 though on =
Freebsd.
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