[Dovecot] POP3 Performance

[Kelsey Cummings]

On 03/16/12 06:07, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Maildir isn't very good for POP3, especially if the POP3 clients delete the mails after download. With Dovecot you could look into switching to multi-dbox format, which would have much better performance.

Timo, can you explain why Maildir isn't a good for POP3 in this context?

Another thing our existing POP3 servers did was batch all of the deletes 
until after the +OK... was returned from quit.  This doesn't reduce 
server load but has the impression of creating faster response times to 
the clients.

-K