Greg A. Woods wrote:
>The size isn't the issue, and even the rate of incoming mail isn't
>terribly hard to scale for -- it's the frequency of accesses that bogs
>down a mailbox server. I don't know about recent versions of qpopper,
>but older versions would drag a Sun E450 to its knees with 100k
>mailboxes and a random sample of all users hitting it every minute with
>an even distribution across the minute (and with only an average of a
>few hundred KB per mailbox).
>
I haven't used it personally, but this thread brought to mind a pop server I'd found a little while ago:
http://nupop.sourceforge.net/ It does some caching of message information, and according to the website, 94% of their users are handled by the cache. It certainly sounds worth checking out.
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