On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 03:30:59PM -0500, Mohamed M. Abbas wrote:
> 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. 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.
If your users don't have UNIX shell access to the mail server, then
you should enable server-mode in qpopper, if you haven't already. Read
the Performance section of the Administrators guide.
> My question is this: Is QPopper or POP3 suited for
> situations where users leave their email on the server? And if it's not
> suited for such purpose, what protocol / software is?
If this is going to be the long-term situation, IMAP is definitely
the better protocol for those users to be using. IMAP is designed for
user manipulation and access to multiple mailboxes on the mail server.
Courier IMAP and UW imapd are both considered good open source
IMAP implementations. However, Courier only uses maildir format and
therefore can't coexist with qpopper.
-- Clifton
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