Testers: Thank you for your help!
Please move to the actual server now.
See <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/group/tools/trac/wiki/Imap>
(Be sure to delete and create a new account in your client - simply
changing the hostname will not work well).
RjS
On 8/27/15 3:37 PM, Robert Sparks wrote:
Folks -
We have been testing IMAP access to the IETF archives for several days
now, with volunteers from the tools-discuss and ietf chairs lists, and
it's been going well. Thank you if you've been helping test already
(and please continue to do so)!
Now we need more testers. We'd like to get a simple measure of load,
so we'd like to have as many folks as are willing accessing the test
instance at the same time with various clients during the next week.
It would be particularly helpful to have several people using the
system next Thursday.
If you're willing to take the time to do this, please drop me a note
directly (I've set reply-to on this message) so I have a feel for how
many people are participating.
Instructions for accessing the test instance are below.
Please report any issues you find directly to me. Do not open tickets
with the secretariat. Be aware that there are known issues with the
data on the test instance (some lists have blank or truncated
messages) that have not yet been addressed - it would be good to
report any more you find to me, but they won't get fixed immediately.
Please use tools-discuss(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org for general conversation. If you
have feature requests, that's a good place to send them. One request
we've had from a few testers so far is to provide an additional shared
folder with a mailbox for each list that has only the "recent"
messages from that list - perhaps the last 6 months. It would be good
to hear from folks, after they've tried what's there now, whether that
would be useful to spend development time on, or if that time would be
better spent elsewhere.
The test instance is getting mail with only a slight delay after it
comes through the lists - you should see current traffic.
Please resist the temptation to download the entire archive of every
list. I've done it - it's huge (~28G when MailMate does it) and it
it's a severe torture test for clients. Interrupt your client if it
starts trying to do that to you. Caching a copy of this test instance
will not be useful when we deploy the production instance.
Instead, what would help us the most is to configure your client to
access those lists you normally subscribe to, and to spend some time
next week browsing and searching those lists and exploring a few lists
that are new to you.
You can find the details for where the test instance is listening, and
rudimentary instructions for setting up a few clients, at
<http://trac.tools.ietf.org/group/tools/trac/wiki/ImapTesting>. Please
improve that page as you see the opportunity.
Thanks in advance for any time you can give this.
RjS