Asmodeus writes:
> On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I recently converted to qmail (from Netscape's Novonyx) using Maildir,
> > tcp-server smtp and qmail-pop3d. The client PC's are either Windows NT or 95
> > using Netscape Communicator as the mail user agent (pop3). It takes considerably
> > longer for the clients to "get messages" from the server, can anyone give my a
> > tip on what to tune or look for.
>
> This may sound stupid, but some of my tolerat--erm... "much loved" users
> complained about how slow it took for messages to be delivered
> inter-office, and it was because they were polling the pop3 server every
> 15 minutes. They were used to Exchange server's instantaneous (push)
> delivery of mail.
[ Disclaimer: I cannot be responsible for the eternal soul of anyone
who tries the following. You *have* been warned. ]
Try munging qmail-pop3d so that it always reports that one more piece
of mail is available than really exists. When the client software
tries to download it, send them nothing -- just hang. Wait for a
single character to be written to a named pipe. When that character
arrives, open the first piece of mail you see, and send it to them.
Write that character to the pipe using a .qmail file like this:
./Maildir/
|echo >Maildir/.waiton
Then tell them to poll the pop3 server every zero minutes.
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