Tony Finch wrote:
>On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Brian Candler wrote:
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>>Or go for something more efficient. For example, you can get Exim to deliver
>>in Maildir format, and then use courier-imap as the POP3 server. That's a
>>major redesign in your system though.
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>I didn't think Courier did any metadata cacheing, so how does it avoid
>stat()ing hundreds of files each time a POP connection comes in?
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Not courier, but the way we used to do this was to use a Maildir tag to
hold the message size and then just do a directory read, parsing that
infomration out of the filename.
Nigel.
