On 12/7/07, Aleksander Kamenik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe they don't want to offer DBMail because they know > > users will be able to use IMAP with many messages, and they will use a > > lot more space. > > dbmail has IMAP and POP servers. It also has quota limits per user as > most any other MDA (limits in how many megabytes of messages a user's > account can hold).
Hi Aleksander, Yes, I know, but regardless of quotas, with the current implementation of email in web hosting companies (mbx or even Maildir these days), most customers prefer downloading the mail to their own computer (POP), it's faster than IMAP with thousands of messages. For the web host, it means the customer's mailbox is always empty. If they start using DBMail, the users won't have any performance issue and will start keeping a copy or their mails on the server and use IMAP. In this case, their mailboxes will start using more and more space and this will cost more to the web hosts. By the way, one other thing I would suggest, although I'm not sure the IMAP protocol supports it, is zipping the content before sending it to the MUA, pretty much like mod_gzip to Apache for web pages. This way sending headers from your IMAP server to your email client would be faster, you zip all the updated headers on the fly and send them to the client :) -- Charles A. Landemaine. _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
