Re: [Exim] An interesting problem with large spools

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Author: Suresh Ramasubramanian
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To: Exim Users
Subject: Re: [Exim] An interesting problem with large spools
Paul Robinson rearranged electrons thusly:

> I've worked in environments where it was OK to kill any one mail over 5Mb in
> size which solved a lot of problems, but even though we offer ISP services,
> nearly all of our customers are graphic design houses. Guess how popular
> that policy would be with these guys? We even give them free
> multiple-account FTP areas and they don't use them! Bah! :-)


Outlook seems to do that to people.

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


> Slight problem with this, and something I didn't explain in my previous
> mail. We're not using an unpatched qpopper - we're using the MySQL patch so
> that all of our users sit in MySQL tables, and exim does delivery based on


AFAICT, gnu-pop3d supports mysql / ldap and suchlike quite well. There is also
a patch to handle virtual domains.

> problematic. However, qpopper has got on my nerves enough in the last 9
> months that I am seriously considering spending some time either patching
> another pop3d or perhaps even writing my own from scratch which would allow
> configuration file directives for MySQL similar to exim. If I were to make


> It's only a dream, but a nice one. I want something similar for RADIUS as
> well. In fact, I just want all software to be designed and written as well
> as exim! :-)


Hear, Hear.

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