Re: [Dovecot] POP3 Performance

2012-03-17 Thread Mark Alan
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:07:24 +0200, Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 16.3.2012, at 13.07, Mauricio López Riffo wrote: pop3_no_flag_changes=yes Is it the same as pop3_no_flag_updates=yes ? M.

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 Performance

2012-03-17 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 17.3.2012, at 16.14, Mark Alan wrote: On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:07:24 +0200, Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 16.3.2012, at 13.07, Mauricio López Riffo wrote: pop3_no_flag_changes=yes Is it the same as pop3_no_flag_updates=yes ? Yeah. I wrote it from my memory.

[Dovecot] POP3 Performance

2012-03-16 Thread Mauricio López Riffo
Hi, We actually have a mail hosting solutions with aprox. 100 thousand of email account, where about 90% of a customers use POP3 like email configuration. About a few mounths (we perfomed a lot of migration throught mbox email software to Maildir with dovecot) but i can see that the

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 Performance

2012-03-16 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 16.03.2012 12:07, schrieb Mauricio López Riffo: Hi, We actually have a mail hosting solutions with aprox. 100 thousand of email account, where about 90% of a customers use POP3 like email configuration. About a few mounths (we perfomed a lot of migration throught mbox email software

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 Performance

2012-03-16 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 16.3.2012, at 13.07, Mauricio López Riffo wrote: We actually have a mail hosting solutions with aprox. 100 thousand of email account, where about 90% of a customers use POP3 like email configuration. About a few mounths (we perfomed a lot of migration throught mbox email software to

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 Performance

2012-03-16 Thread Kelsey Cummings
On 03/16/12 06:07, Timo Sirainen wrote: Maildir isn't very good for POP3, especially if the POP3 clients delete the mails after download. With Dovecot you could look into switching to multi-dbox format, which would have much better performance. Timo, can you explain why Maildir isn't a good

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 Performance

2012-03-16 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 16.3.2012, at 19.49, Kelsey Cummings wrote: On 03/16/12 06:07, Timo Sirainen wrote: Maildir isn't very good for POP3, especially if the POP3 clients delete the mails after download. With Dovecot you could look into switching to multi-dbox format, which would have much better performance.

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 Performance

2012-03-16 Thread Kelsey Cummings
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