Re: Large spool mboxes => slow?

On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, David Champion wrote:

> * On 2006.03.09, in <[email protected]>,
> *	"Hugh Sasse" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > Getting users to change their behaviour is another story altogether,
> > of course :-)
> 
> In addition to architectural considerations, you might want to try the
> HAPPYMAIL patch I developed to address the problem of changing user
> behavior.
> 
> http://home.uchicago.edu/~dgc/sw/qpopper/index.html

To summarize: It rate limits the permitted popping attempts as a 
linear function of mailbox size with an initial amount of space for
free, and a minimum time interval between requests.
> 
> This page and the software are a bit out of date, as we no longer use
> Qpopper in production, but I don't anticipate that adapting the patch to
> current Qpopper code would be all that hard.  I'd be glad to answer any
> questions you have.

Has anyone on the list done that already?

This looks like exactly what I need. Thank you.

        Hugh