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Subject:    Re: [Imap-use] UW-Imap on Solaris
From:       "DormitionSkete () hotmail ! com" <dormitionskete () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2012-11-27 17:09:23
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Great!  Thanks!

I'm going to continue to us mboxes, so hopefully all will go well...

Unfortunately, I might not get to it today, but I hope to.

Thanks again.

Peter, hieromonk



On Nov 27, 2012, at 5:50 AM, Gary R. Schmidt wrote:

> On 27/11/2012 4:32 PM, DormitionSkete@hotmail.com wrote:
> > I've been using uw-imap for something like twelve years or so, and I absolutely \
> > love it.  Many thanks to all who have worked on developing it, etc. through the \
> > years! 
> > 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? 
> > If so, does anyone have any recommendations on a different imap server for \
> > Solaris? 
> > I'd really miss uw-imap, but mail is real important to us.
> > 
> > Any feedback / advice will be *greatly* appreciated.
> Ignore it.  It is just that System V UNIX does not allow a process to lock files \
> against itself, one of those religious argument things, but many people run UW-IMAP \
> on Solaris boxen, and have done so for years and years. 
> Oh, but there may be a bug in the code for MIX mailboxes on ZFS file systems, I \
> think I posted about it here long ago, but I've not looked at it in along time, I \
> run Panda-IMAP these days, and don't know if the fix was needed or propagated. 
> ...Pulls down uw-imap source...grovels about...
> 
> Hmm, the problem was that the opendir()/scandir() replacement code (in \
> ./src/osdep/unix/opendir.c) relied on the undocumented feature that stat() on a \
> directory set the st_size field of the stat structure to the number of characters \
> used for filenames, with ZFS it is the number of files in the directory. 
> The workaround was to not use the scandir() replacement, the one in libc is fine \
> with Solaris 10 and later. 
> Cheers,
> Gary    B-)
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