Re: [courier-users] Re: POP3 using lots of CPU

[Olivier Girondel]

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Brian Candler wrote:
| Or were you thinking of encoding the POP3 size in the filename, say
| ,S=10000,P=10043 ?
|
| If it comes to that, I'd be quite happy to have ,S=<POP3 size> rather than
| ,S=<real size>. People won't miss a few bytes off their quotas :-)

i'd like to also have this kind of feature, i was thinking
of using the :1 field from the maildir++ specification
(http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html) to store the transferred
mail size, this would look like:

988905901.32588_1.host,S=1753:1,O=1773:2,RS

this could be done either by the MTA, or by the
POP3/IMAP server when it moves mails from new/ to cur/.

this way the mail would have to be parsed only once,
instead of at each POP3 login, furthermore the IMAP
and POP3 servers could get whichever size of the mail
is needed from it's filename.

i just thought it was the point of the maildir++ spec
to ease things by storing the info in the filename :)

besides, i definitely think this would put an end to all
these mails i see saying "POP3 uses lots of cpu",
"Help! slow POP3 logins", "OE times out while logging
to POP3", etc ;)

courier-imap is definitely an excellent piece of
software, this problem is the only one that pulled
my hair off :)

Mr Sam: yes you are right when you say IMAP is a better
solution for accessing huge mailboxes, it's just that
there are people here with ties that sell POP3 to big
customers without caring of the technical aspects of
this...

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Olivier Girondel
vISP Engineer

Cable & Wireless - Internet Services
Delivering the Internet promise (tm)
www.cw.com

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