Re: [courier-users] Re: Weird problem(?)

[Morten W. <mor...@un...>]

> >> >> Morten Wartou writes:
> >> >> > We have just discovered that the Courier POP3 daemon reads =
through each
> >> > emailfile even though we use the Maildir-format. Is this the =
intention? Is
> >> > there any way we can get around it?
> >> >> This is required in order to fully comply with the POP3 =
protocol, which
> >> >> calculates message sizes using CRLF newline terminators.
> >> > Oh... Heck. :) Do you know how is this messagesize returned to =
the client?
> >> In STAT/RETR commands, I believe.=20
> > Stat and retr, and list by the way, returns the size in bytes.
> ... With CRLF being the line terminator.=20
> > I cannot find any POP3 command that needs the number of lines in the =
mail. It seems as a complete waste of time and I/O-capacity.
> Here's a file.  Go ahead, use stat(), and try to calculate the size of =
the=20
> message with an extra CR tacked on at the end of each line.=20
Hehe. Yes, you're right. Just found out. I've tried qmail pop3 now - it =
just returns the number of bytes without taking notice of the CR/LF... =
Lots of people use qmail - do you know if it is a known problem to =
anyone that the correct size isn't reported?

Uhm, just found out that Intermail also seems to report only file size. =
We'll just try hacking Courier... :)

Ah, finished hacking. We're up and running - POP3 is around 2593 times =
faster now - load on machine down from 10+ to way under 1.


Regards,

    Morten Wartou