While this is open source and we appreciate it and how the whole open source
community works, how much would a change like this cost, and how many of us would
be willing to put some money into it in order to get something like this written
right away ?
I would gladly consider putting some money in to this...(nothing huge dollar
wise)...
Am I even crazy thinking about this ?
Jack
Qpopper Support wrote:
> 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.
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