I hope you are implementing IMAP as a separate module/program and not bloating xmail server for the rest of us. Is this right?
Bill >---------- >From: Davide Libenzi[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 3:00 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [xmail] Re: IMAP Service in XMail > > >On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Peter Lindeman wrote: > >> >> On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 09:53:48 -0700 (PDT), Davide Libenzi wrote: >> >> >> Ok Davide, Chill Out. I ack your reason. >> > >> >one of the other reasons why i'm taking imap dev easy is because i did not >> >really have tons of requests for it. 90% of internet users are still using >> >pop3 and 70% of imap users are using imap like pop3 - connect, fetch, >> >delete, disconnect. >> >> Well I like to have it to, I guess a lot of people are not asking for >> it because we know you are working on it to get it somewhere this year. > >the other thing that completely changes with imap is system resources >requirements. pop3 is short-lived session protocol and, let's say you've >10000 accounts in your server, the concurrency is typically less than >2-5% ( less 200-500 simultaneous connections ). with imap, that is a >long-lived sesssion protocol you can have even 60-70% of concurrency, that >makes 6-7000 connections. and connections means stack, socket buffers, >status info, etc... also the server has to perform tasks that are not >usually done by a server ( like parsing mime files ) and this increase >also the cpu utilization. > > > > >- Davide > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
