From owner-freebsd-isp Mon May 13 13:53:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA21539 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 13 May 1996 13:53:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gallup.cia-g.com (root@gallup.cia-g.com [206.206.162.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA21526 for ; Mon, 13 May 1996 13:53:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gallup.cia-g.com (gallup.cia-g.com [206.206.162.10]) by gallup.cia-g.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA12600; Mon, 13 May 1996 14:53:49 -0600 Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 14:53:47 -0600 (MDT) From: Stephen Fisher To: Jason Fesler cc: Patrick Ferguson , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, Bruce Bauman Subject: Re: POP timeout In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960510150634.006f8844@jpop.calweb.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hmmm.. how do other popd's handle large mailboxes without problems, or do they? On Fri, 10 May 1996, Jason Fesler wrote: > At 07:38 PM 5/9/96 -0600, Stephen Fisher wrote: > > > >Well, that's good to know, now how do we fix it? Switch to another > >popd? Change something in qpopper? > > Changing the Eudora timeout settings to be more lenient *can* help, but > it's still one of those no-win situations. I'm presently developing a > non-Berkeley mail system compatibile popmail box. It would require > popclient as a frontend for the unix folks to use, as the storage system > would be similiar to a news system (index file, plus one file per message.. > *fast* response, but just as ugly as a news system would be). > > May not be the brightest way to do it, but I can open a 20 meg mailbox in > just a second or so :-) > > Note that I am not ready to release it. It's still a rough project, and I'm > not ready in the least bit to support it in it's current state. It's > presently going through alpha testing with a few of the staff here. I also > have not yet addressed things like mail forwarding and remote administration > by the user [the goal is to have the mail machine not to use NFS at all, but > to be an autonomous system - it won't have access to ~user/.forward files ..] > > -- > Jason Fesler jfesler@calweb.com > Admin, CalWeb Internet Services jfroot@calweb.com > I like my Usenet over ice, please. http://www.gigo.com > Disclaimer: My /dev/null can beat your /dev/null any day. >