Subject: Big problems with big INBOX files

From: Eigil Krogh Sorensen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 01:09:01 +0200

On our SCO 5 system we are using MMDF as the e-mail system.

Besides we have IMAPD, IPOP2D and IPOP3D from the Pine distribution
installed.

When one or more of the users INBOX (in /usr/spool/mail/usr-id) gets
over a certain size the SCO 5 system nearly dies if the user attacehs
his e-mail. The SCO 5 system gets extreme slow and works very heavily on
the disk. E.g. today my own INBOX got the size of 16957 KB. That was
enough to bring the SCO 5 to near death.

What can the reason be for that ? Is there anything I can do to solve
the problem ?

As it gets more and more usual that users sends documents of different
kinds to each others via e-mail the problem have become very critical
here.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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 -- Eigil Krogh Sorensen
 
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From: Per Steinar Iversen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 08:27:30 +0200

> kinds to each others via e-mail the problem have become very critical

Upgrade to the most recent UW imapd - there have been significant
improvements recently as far as memory is concerned.

Another imapd worth considering is Cyrus imapd. It supports
searching in folders using characters sets other than US-ASCII,
the main reason why I switched to Cyrus. Otherwise I feel
that UW imapd is more convenient.

-psi