On 03/16/12 10:54, Timo Sirainen wrote:
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.
You mean deleting the messages after +OK, instead of before? Does it really
make a difference?
In the context of a clients "send and receive" phase taking a (small)
fraction of a second less time, perhaps, but it is a small difference in
any case. It was one of many small changes we made to try to improve
interactive performance.
.. Dovecot can reply with -ERR to QUIT if deletions failed for some reason.
True, we decided that loosing that ability didn't really matter. (Like
not counting newlines as two bytes in the message size.)
-K
