At 5:12 PM -0800 12/8/00, Sergiy Zhuk wrote:
> hi
>
> follow-up about qpopper's performance:
>
> Some people on the list suggested using qmail with its own POP3 daemon.
> The key here is the "maildir" mailbox format.
> If qpopper could understand that format, we could remove most of performance
> bottlenecks like locking (there's *NONE* with maildir format), reading
> the entire mailbox to list messages, rewriting the entire mailbox to update
> status etc.
> You don't even have to use qmail for delivery, since a very popular procmail
> can deliver to 'maildir' type mailboxes since v3.14.
> procmail is pretty often used as LDA for sendmail and other mailers for
> filtering.
>
> Any plans to implement this, any volunteers ? ;)
>
> thanks
>
> --
> rgds,
> serge
Maildir support is one of the features we are considering for a
future release. Naturally, we welcome any submitted patches.
