Re: [Imap-uw] 2 GiB limit issue

2007-06-24 Thread David Unric
Thank You Mark. Good news about new the .mix format. Unfortunately our Linux vendor does not yet offer 2006 version so I had to create my custom build. I've converted reference mailboxes from .mbx to .mix and after some tests it looks like it would work. We had to test this new format for about

Re: [Imap-uw] 2 GiB limit issue

2007-06-24 Thread Mark Crispin
Hopefully, you got imap-2006i (or the development imap-2006j) from the UW web site: ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap.tar.Z or ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap-2006j.DEV.tar.Z In my opinion, mix is ready for production use. Several sites have already converted. UW

[Imap-uw] 2 GiB limit issue

2007-06-23 Thread David Unric
There is a known and long-standing bug in c-client library not properly handling mailboxes larger then 2 GB - file format gets corrupted. Do developers intend to fix this bug/annoyance in the near future or is there some patch already flying around ? I have to solve and resurrect corrupted

Re: [Imap-uw] 2 GiB limit issue

2007-06-23 Thread Mark Crispin
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Mark Crispin wrote: The solution is not to make the problem worse by allowing flat files to be larger than 2GB. That just increases the costs of doing anything with the file, and makes the file even more vulnerable to corruption. PS: I have been asked by beleagured