Re: [Exim] An interesting problem with large spools

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Auteur: Suresh Ramasubramanian
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Aan: exim-users
Onderwerp: Re: [Exim] An interesting problem with large spools
Paul Robinson rearranged electrons thusly:

> server mode, due to the fact that our past experience has shown mail has
> gone "missing" when qpopper is in server mode on our systems.


Ouch - you touched a nerve there - we have a very similar setup (which is a
frontend for a lotus notes network), with all the people bent on sending
massive M$ office and other attachments to each other.

> Therefore, qpopper is copying the enire spool over to .username.pop and
> working on it there before moving left messages back over to the spool.


And sometimes, if this lockfile goes (like when the download is broken in the
middle by a slow network connection - say over a dialup for our roaming
users), the user's mailbox goes as well.

Simple cure - ditch qpopper and switch to gnu-pop3d <http://www.ndn.net> -
I've found it rock-solid stable in these conditions.

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Suresh Ramasubramanian + mallet<@>efn.org
You spamma my mailbox, I nukea da ass