Mark Lehrer writes: > > I have a question about the pop3 server; I have been using Courier > for awhile and I have several users who unfortunately like to leave > their mail on the server for 7 days. > > The problem I have is that it appears that the pop3 server is reading > the contents of every email... when you have 3 users simultaneously > reading 100 megabytes of mail every 5 minutes, it leads to significant > degradation of performance on the server.
Certain POP3 commands require the entire mailbox to be rescanned. > My key reason for making the switch to Maildirs was to avoid this kind > of thrashing. Has anyone else run into this? Is there a setting in > pop3d that I can use to have it only read the headers, or does pop3 > have to read the complete contents? You're using the wrong tool for the job. POP3 is not designed for hundred-megabyte mailboxes. That's what IMAP's for. POP3's purpose is to serve as a means to download mail from an external mailbox, and that's it. -- Sam _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
