get rid of qpopper as soon as you can, will save you a lot of time.
you can save mail to /home/user/.mail using procmail, which is more
effective than putting all mailboxes in /var/mail, but qpopper is very
ineffective as it scans the mailbox every time user connects.
About 3% of user population can use up to 99% of system resources (mostly
IO).
qmail-pop3d is much faster and supports Maildir format.
procmail can deliver to maildir.
I would like to continue using sendmail, however, along with procmail. Is
it possible torun qmail-pop3d with sendmail?
I also belive that QPopper allows the same /home/user/.mail structure. If
that is the case, and say you have ... /home/user/a, /home/user/b, etc for
the structure, is it not possible that QPopper would work just as efficent
as qmail-pop3d?
What exactly slows down QPopper? To my knowledge, and correct me if I'm
wrong, it's scanning 8 thousand + files in the /var/mail directory, as it
would read the disk just too often to be efficent? So would not the above
example work using QPopper?
-Scott
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