On 03/16/12 06:07, Timo Sirainen wrote:
Maildir isn't very good for POP3, especially if the POP3 clients delete the 
mails after download. With Dovecot you could look into switching to multi-dbox 
format, which would have much better performance.

Timo, can you explain why Maildir isn't a good for POP3 in this context?

Another thing our existing POP3 servers did was batch all of the deletes until after the +OK... was returned from quit. This doesn't reduce server load but has the impression of creating faster response times to the clients.

-K




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