Re: [9fans] acme mail "feature"

["Fco. J. Ballesteros" <nemo@lsub.org>]

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I think upas/fs wont read messages before it's needed when
using imap. At least, I remember changing it do work that way
(Hmm, I think it required also a change in acme Mail, but I'm
not sure).

It's loooong since I used that feature for the last time, so
I'm not sure about what's upas/fs doing.

Also, IIRC, you have to read all the messages if you're using
pop instead of imap.

Once the message is here, reading it into ram is not a serious
problem unless you keep many many messages or very big ones.

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From: Brantley Coile <brantley@coraid.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] acme mail "feature"
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:49:02 -0400
Message-ID: <14096ba5db5eb3013ad32ee1a3efa237@coraid.com>

> but the thing that most needs fixing (for my usage pattern anyway) is
> the way that upas/fs reads the entire mailbox into RAM. i get around
> this by periodically archiving my mailbox, deleting all but the most
> recent 6 month's worth of messages, but i'd prefer not to do this.

I agree.  I have a user who accesses his mail box from pop and keeps
all the mail on the server.  He has run up pretty large mail boxes in the past.

> 
> all that said, i think the combination of acme mail and upas/fs
> is excellent, and i wouldn't use anything else!

Here, here!!