Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 10:26:44 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: Barrett Richardson <ratbert@phoenix.aye.net> Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cucipop & Sendmail - locking problems? Message-ID: <36972EE4.9F40B7F2@tdx.co.uk> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990109041820.13445A-100000@phoenix.aye.net>
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Barrett Richardson wrote: > Using the Maildir format each message is placed in an individual > file. New messages are placed in Maildir/new, if they are read but > left on the server by the pop client they are migrated to Maildir/cur > (there is also a Maildir/tmp, but I can't remeber what it's for). Yes, that sounds good as a solution - is it easy to implement? (subtle hint I guess for ideas / suggestions ;-) Presumably it means at least tweaking sendmail, and dumping Cucipop? > This has saved us much grief. We were using a pop server that copied > the mbox to a popdrop file when users checked their messages. Trouble > was some users had their popclients leave the mail on the server and > then set it to check for new mail once a minute -- and they had mail > files that were sometimes 40 meg -- our server was getting beat to > death. Yeah, I've seen servers crippled by that as well... :-) -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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