On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Daniel Senie wrote:
> 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. > I thought about that. But I'm not sure if it's effective for a user base of 5000, where there is a trend to leave mail on the server. > > 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. I guess I have to be more precise. Given the situation that I've described above, which protocol is more suited for it? And if POP3 is suited, how do I go about to configure QPopper in such a way as not to produce load spikes every time someone who leaves his mail on ther server check his/her email. Mohamed M. Abbas [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Longwood College
