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[tpop3d-discuss]TODO
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holmier |
Subject: |
[tpop3d-discuss]TODO |
Date: |
Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:54:03 +0100 |
Hi,
I would like tpop3d to be used in large scale deployment.
To achieve this some thing should be done.
First (i think) new stuff:
- when designing and using highly avaliable large e-mail system we need a
storage area, it's not a good idea to have mail directories in one big
folder beacuse of I/O disk stress. To avoid this we can use hash function
to divide user maildirs in special directory tree.
One of such function is exim's nhash(), it's very simple to use it
when storing mail. The function i very efficent and allow us to seperate
e-mails equal through the directories.
One of the idea is to implement into tpop3d such function.
As we have mbox, maildir types we could have nhash type, for example
nhash:/var/mail/$(local_part) would append the proper hash to the
/var/mail, or we could also use /var/mail/$(local_part)@$(domain) to
calculate the hash of the whole e-mail address.
Another idea is to calculate the hash with php, or other languages
that frontends are based on.
This is generally used when storing users in databases and the mail
path is retrieved from db.
- Another idea to avoid stat()-ing the size of the single message (when
using maildirs) is to append the exact size of such message into message file
name. Tpop3d would only lookup the list of the files in the maildir and he
would know what is the size of each messages.
Implementing this in the exim is also trivial.
The good known stuff:
What we need to do else:
- Bulletins support: doing this by calling perl that executes the
external mta that do the delivery is not a good,
effective idea.
- Recursive maildirs: Recursion in getting mail from maildirs and its
sub directories (.dir1, .dir2)
Connection type default message(do not know kow to call it): For
example: When user connects into 110 and tries to authenticate with plain
text, he gets all the time the same message(retrieve e-mail) with
instruction how to use SSL.
What dou you think about those ideas?
Mc.
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