On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 05:47:29PM -0500, Scott Gifford wrote:
> Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 01:12:13PM -0500, John R Levine wrote:
> > > The usual mailbox vs. maildir war has flared up on inet-access, and points
> > > out a bug in qmail-pop3d. When you do a LIST command, it gives you the
> > > size of each message. Pop3d just reports the file sizes, while it's clear
> > > from the RFC that it's supposed to report the wire size of each message,
> > > i.e., the size using cr/lf as a line terminator, so the sizes it reports
> > > are too small.
> >
> [ ... ]
> > Yes. This behaviour is known. Fixing it, however, involves a *huge*
> > performance downgrade of qmail-pop3d.
>
> A solution I have considered is storing the messages in wire format.
> Especially for POP/IMAP-only clients, seems like it could be a
> medium-sized performance win, since the line-conversion is done only
> once, regardless of how many times the message is downloaded. If the
> message were kept in wire-format from SMTP through delivery, no line
> conversion would be required at either end, and a larger performance
> gain would be possible.
>
> Has anybody tried this, or anything like it?
Have not tried it, but it sounds like it would definitely work.
Greetz, Peter.
