Re: [Exim] Re: Cubic Circle RPM and source

Well, that's great! we are currenty running qpopper, but it runs REALLY
slow on a RAID 5 system with 256MB RAM, and 450Mhz pentium-II. We have
9,000 customers, and customers are complaining. Also, their mail often
won't unlock with qpopper. so, I am trying to move away from qpopper.
qpopper to me just looks like a program with alot of bells and whistles.
Kind of like a microsoft office program. The newer the program, the more
bells and whistles it has, but the slower it runs, and the more often it
hangs your system.

Only reason I choose cucipop is because I tried it without the v-pop and
it ran VERY fast. Disk IO was down to a minimum... Disk IO is our
biggest problem. But, it would be nice to address both issues.

Would like to do a RAID-10 (2 stripes mirrored), and put the exim-spool on
on it's own drive, and OS on another, then the RAID-10 for storing mail.
But, couldn't convince my boss to shell out the dough to buy such a thing.
So, I guess I will just have to program it...

Sincerely,

Richard G. Duvall

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Anand Buddhdev wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 03:25:59AM -0700, Richard G. Duvall wrote:
>
> > Problem is, it says in the docs that the db2 portion has to be there to
> > support virtual pop servers. This is one of the main reasons we are
> > moving to cucipop. That, and the disk IO issue, which cucipop is
> > supposedly better at that qpopper.
> >
> > But, you are right, it compiles easily without the db2 portion... Any way
> > we could have vpop servers without the db2? Any other popper we should
> > look at that is good on disk IO as well?
>
> Try qmail's pop3d. It only works with Maildirs, but exim can write to a
> Maildir. It's small and fast, and because of the Maildir structure (one
> file per message), very good about disk IO. No files to copy around. And
> Maildirs work reliably over NFS too. The best part about qmail-pop3d is
> that its auth it separate from the actual POP server. It is launched in
> a chain somewhat like this:
>
> qmail-popup checkpassword qmail-pop3d
>
> where qmail-popup asks for a username and password, passes those
> to checkpassword (the default checkpassword by DJB auths from
> /etc/passwd, but you can write your own to auth from anywhere, eg.
> RADIUS, another file, MySQL) and if the auth is successful, runs
> the qmail-pop3d (or you can even run a shell script which could
> capture the IP address for POP-before-SMTP, and then exec the
> qmail-pop3d). Very flexible, and very easy to use and understand.
> If you need to modify its source code for any reason, it's also
> very cleanly written and easy to understand.
>
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