On 2/26/04 at 14:20, David Muszynski wrote:
> I don't know about server performance (although I'd guess that it bogs
> down pretty good) but I know that on the user end of the connection
> that it has to parse the entire file to see what new mail has been
> appended, and that's a pretty slow process even on broadband.
Er, with POP, the mailbox parsing and corresponding slowdown takes place on
the server.
> On Feb 26, 2004, at 5:10 PM, Paul List Hess wrote:
>
> > If some of my users keep a large POP mailbox on my SIMS system, say
> > 10-15MB of undownloaded attachments for messages they have already
> > seen, does that bog down the server and/or slow down their performance
> > each time they connect to check their mail?
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