[imp] Huge mailboxes and IMP

[Metee Khanongnuch]

Hi

  I'm using Pentium 1GHz,  Memory 512 MBytes and 18GBytes in RAID1 with
Solaris 8 x86 and software are following

qmail 1.03 with qmail-ldap
courier-imap 1.3.11
apache 1.3.22
php 4.0.6
IMP 3.0RC1

I have mail 270MBytes IMP can work well.
I think maildir format can improve performance.
If you use sendmail, you can use maildrop as local MTA and use courier-imap
as IMAP server


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jose Gracia Neto - CAT" <zegracia@cbpf.br>
To: "IMP" <imp@lists.horde.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 6:07 PM
Subject: [imp] Huge mailboxes and IMP


> Hi,
>
> I am running IMP on my network, under Solaris 8 environment, and I am
having
> the following problem:
>
> Some of my users have the habit to grow huge mailboxes, over 10 Mb large,
and
> everytime one of them tries to access the webmail, they cause heavy load
on my
> server, witch has always a few connexions.
> This causes amy instances of imap daemons (UW-IMAP) to crash and remain on
my
> process stack.
> I tried setting the maximum values allowed in php.ini to affordable
values, but
> this still doesn't prevent those users to try to access their mailboxes,
witch
> causes the mentioned unpleasant effect.
> I'd like to know if there is already some way to check mailbox sizes (by
mailbox
> I mean the inbox on my spool partition) BEFORE attempting to connect the
user,
> so I can at least present him a message telling him to narrow it down with
his
> conventional mail client.
> If not, is there by any chance any way to select just some messages for
viewing
> instead of the whole mail box? Perhaps some way to limit the number of
header
> frames, like for example, 5 frames, each one with 20 headers.
>
> By the way, I am using IMP 2.2.7.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jose
>
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