(sorry for the large quote, but it's been quite a while since) Olivier Girondel wrote on Nov 14 16:51: > > 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 ;)
Although there have been less than 5 messages last month, I think the issue will pop up again... > > 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... I'll second that. > > -- > Olivier Girondel > vISP Engineer Has anybody started to work on this feature? It's the only problem I (better: our customers) run in from time to time, and I'd really like to resolve this issue. Although time is limited, I'd try to produce a patch for imapd (1st step), and postfix (2nd step) by january if no one else started this. Thomas -- Thomas Lamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Softwareentwicklung http://www.netwake.de/ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
