[tpop3d-discuss] Long login delay

Dan Clark dan at scarfies.net
Tue, 13 Jan 2004 08:17:41 +1300


Hi
I run my authserv and mysql server at a remote location and DNS resolves up
there too. I have since decided to move the lot back to a local setup, as
even though there is a fast pipe between the sites, there is still a delay

Regards
Dan Clark


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Armstrong " <ika@expressmail.dk>
To: <tpop3d-discuss@lists.beasts.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 5:47 AM
Subject: [tpop3d-discuss] Long login delay


> Hi all,
>
> I think I understand now why tpop3d takes so much longer than Courier to
> log in.
> I am using the "auth-mysql-onlogin-query:" field to update my database
> with the login time, the "now()" command. tpop3d is the only pop3 server,
> to my knowledge, that has this feature, and this is the reason I changed
> to tpop3d. But the problem seems to be (correct me if I am guessing here),
> that tpop3d updates this field every time it reads an email. Therefore, if
> there are 500 messages in the queue, the database is updated 500 times.
> The result is: a long login delay.
>
>
> Ian Armstrong
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> Ian Armstrong
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