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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

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