From owner-freebsd-isp Mon May 13 14:01:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA22358 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 13 May 1996 14:01:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.calweb.com (mail.calweb.com [165.90.138.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA22340 for ; Mon, 13 May 1996 14:00:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from devnull.calweb.com (devnull.calweb.com [165.90.138.92]) by mail.calweb.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA01728; Mon, 13 May 1996 13:54:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960513210007.006a8d40@jpop.calweb.com> X-Sender: jfesler@jpop.calweb.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 14:00:07 -0700 To: Stephen Fisher From: Jason Fesler Subject: Re: POP timeout Cc: Patrick Ferguson , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, Bruce Bauman Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 02:53 PM 5/13/96 -0600, Stephen Fisher wrote: >Hmmm.. how do other popd's handle large mailboxes without problems, or do >they? > I'm not even aware of other popd's other than the standard popper (now qpopper) sources. Faster machines can handle larger boxes; likewise, tollerance of the mail client (in there preferences on how long to wait) can affect how big the mailbox can get before there's a problem.. I have heard of pop/smtp-only servers, but they were running NT. I've never seen anything really optimal under Unix geared for the more demanding mail environments of some of our users. [We _are_ alpha testing the one I wrote now with a select group of people on our own system, with good luck so far, but we still have some technical/political hurdles to jump over, ie mail forwarding on a box that won't/can't see people's home directories and .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.