On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 07:51:47PM +0000, Mark Delany wrote:
> > Yes. This behaviour is known. Fixing it, however, involves a *huge*
> > performance downgrade of qmail-pop3d.
>
> Not if it's calculated as the file is written to the Maildir.
True, but that hurts writing performance.
> > 'Usually, during the AUTHORIZATION state of the POP3 session, the POP3
> > server can calculate the size of each message in octets when it opens
> > the maildrop. ..... simply counts each occurance of this character in
> > a message as two octets.'
>
> Typical of those RFCs authors that, consciously or otherwise, used a
> single implementation to guide much of their thinking on protocol
> design. POP3 is not the only standard that suffers as a consequence -
> consider SMTP and DNS?
The implementors had to make a choice. Line format is in fact the
obvious choice for message size. Using server-implementation size is
however not a big deviation.
> We shouldn't have to live with short-sightedness forever.
That's why we have QMTP :)
Greetz, Peter.
