At 15:00 6/5/2002 -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote: >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.
Amen to that... I'm in the process of writing a web based client for reading e-mail, and I'm having the headaches of having to maintain local state for e-mail so that any changes the user makes (such as deleting messages) can be reflected back to the server. Of course, I'm doing this through POP3 sessions with the mail server (retrieving the headers, parsing them, displaying the relevant info for the user, letting them view or delete, etc), so it's not necessarily being done on the same server as the mail server is running on - but still a lot of overhead, especially for MIME encoded messages (it's necessary to read the entire message to determine if there are file attachments, because it's necessary to see each content-type entry in the message). - 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]
