Keith Burdis writes:
> I'm wanting to move a system over to maildirs and just got asked this
> question about qmail-pop3d:
>
> does it handle large mailboxes in qpopper style (ie stream off disk
> rather than the traditional method of slurp the whole lot into ram then
> stream out from there)
It reads the whole directory into memory; not the file contents. The
POP3 protocol *requires* that you not add new messages as they appear,
so checkpointing the state of the mailbox is absolutely necessary.
But to answer your question more directly, it streams off disk.
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