From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 25 17:28: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.plug.cx (kypo.alfred.cx [150.101.93.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C04737B405 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 17:28:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew.reid@plug.cx) Received: from percible.alfred.cx (percible.alfred.cx [150.101.93.190]) by mail.plug.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id A257C2B7E4; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 19:48:38 +0930 (CST) Subject: Re: web email From: Andrew Reid To: John Martinez Cc: Clayton Tycksen , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" In-Reply-To: <3B5F5DC7.FDC4D00E@mtbiker.net> References: <3B5F4A25.1F3C7C92@tycksen.com> <3B5F5DC7.FDC4D00E@mtbiker.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/0.11 (Beta Release) Date: 26 Jul 2001 06:25:07 +0930 Message-Id: <996094507.6701.17.camel@percible.alfred.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25 Jul 2001 17:01:11 -0700, John Martinez wrote: > I'm going to be playing with IMP pretty soon on my FreeBSD 4.3 server. > > http://www.horde.org/imp/ > > Don't think it's in the ports collection, though (at least I couldn't > find it). I have a friend who runs it in FreeBSD and likes it. IMP is excellent. You do have to watch out for one thing that can slow down you SQL database: As IMP 2.2 uses PHPLib (http://phplib.netuse.de) for session management, state sessions can quickly mount up in the SQL database, causing some performance issues. There are two ways to go about it. Ones prevention, and the other's a cure. One would prevent this from happening by ensuring "Logout" was "clicked" every time a user finishes their session. This causes PHPLib to remove the session data from the SQL database. The cure is to write a bit of ([Pp]erl|[Pp]ython) to login and remove all the sessions (in the middle of the night, of course). That problem only really surfaces when you've got more than about 200 users accessing it regularly. I base my knowledge on experience with a system with ~1000 regular users. That's fairly small compared to some of the sites that IMP runs on :-) - andrew -- void signature () { cout << "Andrew Reid -- andrew.reid@plug.cx" << endl ; cout << "Cell: +61 401 946 813" << endl; cout << "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur" << endl; } To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message