On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 01:45:28PM +0800, PM WONG wrote:
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> But some of the people who has used qpopper commented about its
> sophistication, such as slowness for too much I/O (creation of
> temp files ..etc) and other things.
> So why don't we use a simple one like those which comes with the OS
I'm sorry, your wording is so unclear to me that I can not understand
quite what you are getting at. You could be trolling us, but I can't
tell, so I'll give you a straight answer.
First, the "simple one like those which comes with the OS" is going to
depend on what OS you have. Several people pointed out that with a
number of OSes it may actually be qpopper, but may be an older version.
If it's not qpopper, then it's some other program. That program could
be fine to use, or could be very old, or buggy, or have major security
holes, or be lacking in features.
Second, most of the discussion about qpopper performance stems from end
users basically abusing the POP protocol in ways that it was never
intended for, and admins trying to tweak the performance on their
systems to work around this. It is a pretty safe bet that other popper
programs you may look at will not deal with these performance issues
any better, and very likely worse. (That is, if they can even attempt
to POP an 80MB inbox.)
I haven't heard anyone mention a case in which qpopper performs worse
than an older POP daemon and I'd be surprised if there is one. (I have
to admit, I haven't looked at ipop3d performance, but I suspect it's
much less optimized.)
Finally, I'd be surprised if anyone is twisting your arm to use
qpopper. If you have some other program, it's not full of bugs or
security holes, it works well enough for you and you are happy with it,
by all means use it. If however you have thousands of users POPping
mail off your server and it is slowing to a crawl with this other
program... then maybe at that time you'd want to consider qpopper.
-- Clifton
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Clifton Royston -- LavaNet Systems Architect -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"What do we need to make our world come alive?
What does it take to make us sing?
While we're waiting for the next one to arrive..." - Sisters of Mercy
