----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Hazel" <ph10@???>
To: "Mark Rigby-Jones" <mrj@???>
Cc: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Exim] MBX, UW imapd & vanishing messages
> On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Mark Rigby-Jones wrote:
>
> > > However, on Linux, they seem to be different.
> >
> > The same applies on Compaq Tru64 (or whatever it's called this week) -
on
> > both of these you can get seperate flock() and fcntl() write locks on
the
> > same file at the same time.
>
> Sigh.
>
> > > The big question is: are you using NFS?
> >
> > A world of no. Exim & imapd are both running on the same machine
accessing
> > local disk.
>
> That at least removes one source of problems. I'm afraid I don't really
> have anything more to suggest other than stuffing lots of logging into
> both Exim and imapd to try to pin down what exactly is happening.
>
> Philip
>
I recall having the same problem back in the days of Exim 3.12 on a RedHat
5.1 machine with wu-imap. I found the solution was to throw away uw-imapd
and MBX format and go for Courier-IMAP and Maildir
a) the problem vanished
b) my system stopped running dog slow (uw-imap really is pretty poor)
Mike
