> > >I have been experiencing (under numerous clients - OE, Mozilla, Outlook2K, >Squirrel) I've experienced lost email quite regularly. Hence my comment. > >
Might be helpful to turn on some very verbose logging and see WHY this is happening ... #!/bin/sh tee /var/log/imapd/imapd-$USER-$$-in | /usr/sbin/imapd | tee /var/log/imapd/imapd-$USER-$$-out ^ Use this as the target program instead of "/usr/sbin/imapd" in inetd or xinetd to get a ton of logging. BEWARE, this will really crunch your box if you have a lot of activity. > > >With large mailboxes (~25K mail items) system load can easily reach over 5 >(PII 233, with SCSI disks), and that is just 2 users accessing 6 mailboxes >at once. > > > By saying mbox, are you referring to MBX format? If this is the case, I have 50+ users using imap and several 25+ regularly access mailbox files that are 10M all the way up to 2G. I never see load averages that high...i am also doing mime scanning and parsing on every email I receive...granted we have different boxes but we also have much different loads... P3 800 512MB RAM SCSI Disks Good luck, Terry
