sorry for the delayed reply on this.. my mail server had some IP address
issues that I hope to have resolved :)

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 02:49, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote:
> >I was mainly wondering for performance/reliability issues.  considering
> >it's imap, it can potentially be a long running daemon, and I'm always
> >concerned about the stability/reliability of such long running daemons
> >:)
> 
> Binc IMAP isn't a long running daemon like sendmail and Courier-IMAPish;
> it's executed only when a client connects, and closes when a client
> disconnects. This means there can only be problems during the time in
> which a client is connected, and my observations have shown that most
> clients stay connected less than one day; almost all have disconnected
> once during 5 days (although some solid numbers here would be very
> interesting for those with large volumes).

well, I know I often leave my client open for weeks at a time, so that's
a long running daemon there :)  I realize that bincimapd is a 'one shot'
process, but with imap you have a persistent connection..

> I agree with you, though, in that Binc shouldn't use SSL unless it's
> necessary. So for admins that prefer running IMAP only on port 993
> (reasonable), it could make sense to compile --without-ssl and only use an
> SSL enabled tcp wrapper instead. As you say, the only downside of doing
> this is not being able to use recordio so easily, and the configuring of a
> seperate service is a bother for many admins.

actually recordio would work when using with ucspi-ssl ;)

> >Thanks for the input though.  I think I'll just make it consistent and
> >use ucspi-ssl for wrapping the services (I'm already using it to wrap
> >smtp and pop3)
> 
> The documentation could refect this option; do you care to add your run
> script and some clues for new users, to the lifewithbincimap.org wiki?

will do.

-Jeremy

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