hi
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Peter R. Hubberstey wrote:
> Well, this is how I understood the documentation:
>
> When running from inetd, the mail spool file is copied and the popper spools
> from that file. When running in standalone mode that doesn't happen.
You're confusing standalone and server mode.
qpopper doesn't copy mail spool file to a pop drop file in the server mode,
no matter if it's started from inetd or if it's standalone.
It copies the mailbox if user leaves messages on server and the mailbox was
modified during the pop session.
> Since IDE requires not insignificant CPU overhead, I don't really want to
> copy a large mailbox (many customers have mailboxes > 30-40 MB) each time
> they log in.
you're still reading it every time, this is why Berkeley mailbox format
should be decomissioned.
I tried qmail-pop3d with maildir format on a 46Mb mailbox.
The initial scan time is less than a second with qmail-pop3d vs 19 secs with
qpopper (server mode).
All this with pIII 460MHz running freebsd 3.4 with a single pop session.
--
rgds,
serge
