From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Feb 17 13: 7:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.calweb.com (mail.calweb.com [209.210.251.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A1C137B5D7 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 13:07:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ianj@calweb.com) Received: from staff.calweb.com (ianj@staff.calweb.com [209.210.251.15]) by mail.calweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA88009; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 13:07:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ianj@localhost) by staff.calweb.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA19757; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 13:07:12 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: staff.calweb.com: ianj owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 13:07:12 -0800 (PST) From: "Ian R. Justman" To: Mitch Vincent Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Qpopper and hashed directories In-Reply-To: <003501bf7989$3a8a8420$0300000a@doot.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Mitch Vincent wrote: > When I used qopper I found it to be extremely slow and unreliable. Has it > improved much? > > And wouldn't the hashing be done by your MTA, since it's responsible for the > actual delivery of the mail into a certain directory. OF course you would > have to have your POP3 server look there, but that's about it, right? > > I guess I don't know what's involved, though I'm interested. Please > elaborate. True, he MTA would deliver, though the MDA would be what really deal with those directories (in this case, Procmail). I am curious whether anyone had already implemented directory hashing for reading and handling such directories in Qpopper (which we rather need to stay with presently, though my workplace is considering going to CUCIPOP). --Ian. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message