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Date:      Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:21:58 +0100 (CET)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, v.haisman@sh.cvut.cz, Willy@Offermans.Rompen.nl
Subject:   Re: imap-uw on FreeBSD 6.2
Message-ID:  <200703160821.l2G8Lwsl030828@lurza.secnetix.de>
In-Reply-To: <45F92E2C.1080406@sh.cvut.cz>

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Václav Haisman wrote:
 > Willy Offermans wrote:
 > > The following error appears regularly on my FreeBSD 6.2 server called
 > > sun. The frequency of appearance is higher than on FreeBSD 6.1, where I
 > > had this error from time to time. The error is not critical, since a
 > > new instance of the imap program is started upon the crash, I guess. At
 > > least the client users are not complaining about errors or
 > > interruptions of the mail client.
 > > 
 > > Mar 13 09:51:10 sun kernel: pid 46336 (imapd), uid 1012: exited on signal 6
 > > Mar 13 09:51:10 sun imapd
 > > Mar 13 09:51:10 sun in free():
 > > Mar 13 09:51:10 sun error: 
 > > Mar 13 09:51:10 sun chunk is already free 
 > > 
 > > I use imap-uw on FreeBSD 6.2. 
 > 
 > I get the same error occasionally, too. It doesn't seem to affect
 > functionality.
 > 
 > I advise you against using IMAP UW, unless you know your mailboxes won't
 > grow beyond just few megabytes or that there will be only few of them.
 > Their reading and rewriting of whenever you make changes can stress
 > server quite a lot.

I'm not specifically advising against UW imapd, but I've
been using dovecot (ports/mail/dovecot) for several years
without any problems.  It was absolutely painless to
install and configure, and it's humming along perfectly
fine.  So if you decide to change to a different imapd,
I recommend that you have a look at dovecot.

Just my two cents.

Best regards
   Oliver

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