At 03:30 PM 4/3/02, Mohamed M. Abbas wrote: >Hello All, > >I run a combination of sendmail / qpopper setup for our email >infrastructure. And we've been having more and more users ( 5000 users >total ) start to leave their mail on the server.
Time to institute a policy to sweep out the cruft. > We have about 30 people >who have in excess of 25 Megs of mail on the server. When anyone of >those 30 users checks their email, the load on the system skyrockets >through the roof. We run a utility that sweeps out mailboxes. Presently we have it delete anything that's been in a mailbox for more than 30 days. Worked like a champ, and much easier than trying to police our user base. > My question is this: Is QPopper or POP3 suited for >situations where users leave their email on the server? Well, qpopper is an application, and POP3 is the protocol it implements. You might want to rephrase your question. As for qpopper's performance in such cases, there are several tunable parameters which you might want to consider. Others have discussed these recently. I'll let others comment on the best approaches and tradeoffs. > And if it's not >suited for such purpose, what protocol / software is? Your protocol choices are POP3 and IMAP. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Senie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Amaranth Networks Inc. http://www.amaranth.com
