On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Randall Gellens wrote: > At 3:24 PM -0400 4/16/02, Tim Meader wrote: > > >believe it or not many have their Eudora setup to autocheck every > >minute. This is unacceptable with almost 2000 users per machine.
It's unacceptable most times and really does need some form of throttle. passwd -l works well. > Qpopper does support the LOGIN-DELAY CAPA tag, which informs clients > of the minimum mail permitted mail check interval. It doesn't enforce it. > However, I don't > think Eudora currently pays attention to this. I don't believe any package pays attention to it. > Qpopper doesn't currently enforce LOGIN-DELAY, but that wouldn't be a > terribly difficult patch. But try 4.0.4 server mode first, and see > if that helps enough. I believe it should be patched. There are a few packages which are obnoxiously set by default and a clueless user repeatedly hitting "check mail" with a large inbox can affect system load badly, even in server mode. AB
