[Dovecot] Optimizing POP3 performance?

[Sebastian Färber]

> The main issue here is that qmail-pop3d violates POP3 spec and returns
> wrong message sizes. The size that should be reported to POP3 clients is
> the one with linefeeds counted as CR+LF pairs instead of plain LFs. This
> doesn't seem to break clients, but I don't want to violate specs just to
> make things a bit easier.

Thanks for the explanation, i suspected something like this.

> Of course if you don't care about any of this, you could just as well
> modify Dovecot's sources and have it work the same as qmail-pop3d:

The patch fixed my problem, the I/O load on the server is now nearly the same
as with qmail-pop3d.
Thanks Timo, great support!