--On Wednesday, February 07, 2001 10:53:25 PM -0500 Ken Murchison
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IMHO, idled is the best. It provides for near-realtime updates without
> bombarding the server with NOOPs or blindly polling the mailbox. There
> might be cases were the overhead of the idled communication channel
> outweights that of infrequent polling (at the expense of slow updates),
> but I don't know where the cross-over point is. Until someone who has a
> *lot* of users using clients which support IDLE gives us some feedback,
> all we have is theory and speculation.
Yes, this is my general reading on the problem as well. IDLE raises some
significant scalability questions. While it's a win in many situations (it
cuts down the amount of network traffic needed) the additional idled
process could become a bottleneck or unreliable.
>> - With plaintext login [using pwcheck], cyradm asks for the
>> password twice:
>> first "Please enter your password:" then "IMAP Password:" - any
>> reason why?
>>
>> I'm not sure. Has anyone else run across this? Can anyone else solve
>> this?
>
> Yes (using PAM). I don't know.
>
> I assumed this was username/authname issue or a callback issue, but it
> hasn't bothered me to the point of trying to fix it.
Yeah, I think the first password is requested in order to do a saslified
authentication, which fails, and then other code asks for another password.
Actually, I appear to be crashing cyradm with the --auth option right now,
so I'm going to say that this code really needs some work.
I'll try to get around to it, though if anyone else wants to try to
understand, start at "sub authenticate" in IMAP.pm.
Larry
