On Mon, 27 Jan 1997, T. William Wells wrote:
> > Use Cyrus instead. Cyrus pre-indexes the mailbox. Almost no difference
> > in speed between opening a 2 MB as opposed to a 20MB mailbox (tested on a
> > slow Sparc IPC). On a resonable system, Cyrus should be able to handle
> > 100MB mailboxes with out a problem.
> >
> > Cyrus can also give you mailbox size limits as well.
>
> That is not a useful answer. What is "Cyrus"? If it is a POP3
> client it is not useful -- we don't get to dictate what our users
It is impossible for POP3 client to limit the server mail box size.
More simply, Cyrus is a server end solution. A client could not do these
things. The reason why your POP clients timeout, is that your server is
takes too long to open the mailbox.
> use. If it's a POP3 server, something like a pointer to this thing
> would make investigating it possible.
Sorry. I assumed that in this day and age, that people have access to
WWW search engines etc. According to Alta Vista, the core Cyrus pages are
at:
http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/cyrus/
Some of the pages are out of date. You'll proably just want to get
Cyrus 1.5 and read the included docs.
Tom
