On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, [email protected] wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, John Jasen wrote: > >> Would fetchmail fit the bill? > > not well. It works fairly well for a small number of mailboxes, but it > doesn't scale well.
Hi David. Server side pop scales extremely well. I've had 10s of thousands of users popping off very modest hardware. Fetchmail has a daemon mode that will pop mail for many accounts on the one box so I contend it scales well client-side too. > The last time I had a similar problem (a few years ago), I setup mailboxes > elsewher e(at fastmail.fm that time) and then used imapsync to pull the > mail down to the local mailstore. using fetchmail to then deliver it to > the SMTP server so that it goes through the filtering mechansims that are > in place would be one step better, but these are significantly more clumsy > to use than the UUCP approach was. With the UUCP approach my users didn't > care that they had intermittent network access, (I used diald to bring > up the outbound connection whenever anyone needed it) the only symptom > that they could see is that sometimes e-mail took a bit longer to arrive. I run my own mail servers for my personal email. I have it delivered to a couple of virtual boxes out on the 'net (two MX 10s) and pop from there. I considered having it queue there and then forward to home over a VPN (since I have a dynamic IP at home) but decided against it. Queued mail is subject to more failures than mail that has been delivered. Eg, if I had an extended outage at home I don't have to worry about maximum queue lifetimes or anything else. Cheers, Rob -- Email: [email protected] Linux counter ID #16440 IRC: Solver (OFTC & Freenode) Web: http://www.practicalsysadmin.com Contributing member of Software in the Public Interest (http://spi-inc.org/) Open Source: The revolution that silently changed the world _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
