On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 10:15:59PM -0500, James Sneeringer wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 02:24:09PM -0700, Kelly Kane wrote:
> | All your outlook users would probably see is something
> | cryptic ("POP3 can't check your email because of error 0x2498AFE3,
> | somethings hosed"). Letting the processes not close properly could
> | lead to inetd reaching is max process limits, or your system being
> | taxed for memory.
>
> Another problem no one has mentioned is the effect of login-delay on
> "Webmail" users. The POP3 Web-based clients I've seen (not including
> Java applets) tend to make a *lot* of connections to the POP3 server
> in a short period of time.
>
> I know, Webmail is a "use IMAP not POP3" case. Unfortunately, there
> are a great many Web-based POP3 clients out there, and if Qpopper is
> to have such a feature, it will need to deal with them gracefully.
It turns out, the more I've been digging into it, webmail is a "don't
use IMAP either" case. Essentially all the popular webmail packages
don't do persistent sessions, and if you think popper generates a lot
of load, wait til you have imapd firing up, loading the mailbox, and
terminating for *every* mouse click on the client.
-- Clifton
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