Re: Large spool mboxes => slow?

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Hugh Sasse wrote:

> 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This page and the software are a bit out of date, as we no longer use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
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