On 2006-09-11, Mark Crispin <MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU> wrote:
|
| What kind of corruption have you been seeing? Has it been primarily
| incomplete expunges -- that is, after the end of a message is some partial
| message, then some set of earlier messages?

Yes, that's it. I've discussed it with you a couple of times in the
past; you had theorized that it was due to the buggy semantics of
fctnl() locking in Solaris, and recommended we move to Linux or
FreeBSD.

We haven't come to the end of our depreciation cycle for our
UltraSparc IMAP server hardware yet, so we've just kept on with
Solaris, performing occasional scans of our server for corrupted mbx
mailbox files using a custom Perl script.

| I was originally planning to release in conjunction with Alpine (which is
| what Pine is morphing into). However, it now appears that there will be
| an IMAP-only release this month.
|
| Actually, I've already determined/scheduled a release date; I just don't
| want to say it publicly in case it has to slip.
|
| So, "stay tuned"!!

Fantastic, I'm looking forward to it. Mix sounds very nice.

|> I suppose that we could again run in a hybrid mode where certain users have
|> their mail delivered into mix boxes and the rest stick with their current
|> MBX?
|
| Yes.

Perfect.

I'll be keeping an eye out for a new release, and will try to get some
users running on mix as soon as possible for a controlled test.

Jon

| -- Mark --

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