--On Friday, November 30, 2001 4:58 PM -0800 Randall Gellens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 2:15 PM -1000 11/30/01, Clifton Royston wrote: > >> I have a gut feeling there could be problems which would >> result in the mail delivery system (local MTA) from long POP sessions >> holding the mail spool lock for too long and causing incoming mail to >> back up into the mail queue. > > That may be a concern; it depends on how quick the POP session is. POP > sessions typically are much shorter than IMAP sessions. Unfortunately, users on dialup that receive large attachments or have particularly noisy phone lines can have quite long POP sessions, longer than one hour. Even if the POP sessions are short, if they happen frequently enough (like every 2 minutes) the odds are that spools will get corrupted if there is also a long-term UW-IMAP session going.
