RE: Webmail very slow
On 25-Feb-2001 Edinilson J. Santos wrote: Why XMail is too slow when using it with any webmail (IMP, for example)? A simple message with a 5 mb attached file tooks 10 or 15 minutos to be processed (+- 1 or 2 minutes in sendmail/gnu pop3) Look, if We were speaking about SMTP, I could say You that XMail is about 60% faster than sendmail. But We're speaking about POP3 that is a kind of stupid protocol where there's nothing to be fast. If You've tried with the same line conditions, and I think so, I could bet my brand new car that : 1) You've another POP3 connection open onto the same account 2) Your web mail client try to open multiple connections with the same account XMail support, and force ( see pop3locks ), one simultaneous connection per account and what's happening is that before open the new connection it has to wait that the old one timed out. Someone else had this kind of problem ? - Davide
Re: Webmail very slow
On 25-Feb-2001 Edinilson J. Santos wrote: Mr. Davide, Running XMail in debug mode (--debug -Dm) I see that webmail open 1 connection (POP3 Connection, not SMTP). After that, if there is any e-mail with attachment, browser looks like freezed but still connected. We are doing some tests with XMail because we want to change our atual pop3/smtp system. XMail know nothing about the format of the emails, so it makes no distinction between MIME and other types of encodings. How do You send the mail to the mailbox ? Are You using local mail delivery ? If this is the case, is the message CRLF line terminated ? Could You run tcpdump to look at the commands the web interface is trying to issue to XMail ? - Davide
Re: Webmail very slow
On 25-Feb-2001 Edinilson J. Santos wrote: How do You send the mail to the mailbox ? -By Outlook Express 5.5 Are You using local mail delivery ? -Yes If this is the case, is the message CRLF line terminated ? -I think that they are being generated by Outlook Express Could You run tcpdump to look at the commands the web interface is trying to issue to XMail ? -I Will try to do this and report you asap. You can try this : 1) empty Your mailbox 2) send the new mime message with Outlook 3) run : # telnet YOUR-POP3-MACHINE-IP 110 user YOUR-FULL-EMAIL pass YOUR-POP3-PASSWORD stat retr 1 dele 1 quit And look where timeouts are. If no timeout happen, it's your web interface responsibility ( try to run tcpdump ). - Davide
