On Tue 1999-04-27 (12:30), Russell Nelson wrote:
> 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.
>
> -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://crynwr.com/~nelson
Thanks Russel and Peter. That should settle it. I'm slowly moving the system
over to maildirs. I'm facing the usual resistence, but I've managed to
convince the other admins that mutt should be the default mailer. Now with
qmail-pop3d, only the die-hard elm users will still use mailbox. yay! :-)
- Keith
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