> You should get them to switch to consistent imap. At least > then they wouldn't be downloading all of their mail at one time. > > -- Dan
I find in our installation that the POP3 method works better, because once they initially download their mall the POP3 client is asking is 'is there new mail'; which it can do really quickly of an index lookup. The client then disconects. Whereas with IMAP -- the client stays connected to the daemon, using up a process and correspondingly a database connection. That would be a hit of 400 database connections if you did that -- and if people use multithreaded clients that can burst higher. In a shared application pool which reused database connections this may be a better approach. Don't know if dbmail is heading that way with their daemon installations. Looks like forked processes with persistent connections for a while. /Mark
