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 -- Jeremy Kitchen Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kitchen @ #qmail on EFNet - Join the party! ..................... Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc. www.inter7.com 866.528.3530 toll free 847.492.0470 int'l 847.492.0632 fax GNUPG key ID: 93BDD6CE
