From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Nov 4 2:50:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from proteus.eclipse.net.uk (proteus.eclipse.net.uk [195.188.32.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D8D614FFA for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 02:50:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sh@eclipse.net.uk) Received: from eclipse.net.uk (elara.eclipse.net.uk [195.188.32.31]) by proteus.eclipse.net.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7B939B0A; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 10:47:58 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <38216480.E90BA405@eclipse.net.uk> Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 10:48:32 +0000 From: Stuart Henderson Organization: Eclipse Networking X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Leif Neland Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Query pop3-server of progress References: <018a01bf264e$765a57c0$0e00a8c0@neland.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Sometimes a customer calls support saying he can't get his > mail from the pop3-server. Often it's just because the progress-meter > doesn't move very quickly when his mailbox contains an 8MB-attachment > containing a funny avi a 'friend' has sent him. > > We're using qpopper, but wouldn't mind changing if something else > could provide this. Something that might be useful, although not an exact answer to your q. :) qpopper, unless compiled in server mode, will make a copy of the mailbox before working on it. That will add some considerable time to retrieve, particularly on a busy server, particularly with large attachments. I don't remember how to enable it on popper (some alternative pop3ds are: cucipop, in ports, Solar Designer's popa3d, at http://www.openwall.com/popa3d, neither of those make a copy of the mailbox. others can be found at http://freshmeat.net/appindex/daemons/pop3.html). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message