Re: [cobalt-developers] Limiting Qpopper to a single message at a time

["E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

JJT> Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 00:43:42 +1000
JJT> From: John JAYTEE Tompkins


JJT> I am using numerous computers to check an email account on a
JJT> RAQ3.  Each terminal then processes the email(s) it
JJT> receives. The problem is that ALL email in the spool file at
JJT> that moment goes to which ever client checks it. I want to
JJT> be able to limit qpopper to ONLY dispatch ONE message at a
JJT> time so as the other email clients can in turn get one
JJT> message each, thereby distributing the load.
JJT> 
JJT> Can this be done? I've checked the archives and I've not
JJT> seen it mentioned

Not off the shelf; like Jeff said, it's custom development time.
But it shouldn't be terribly hard to do.  I'd have to look at
Qpopper source, but I'd guess it would take less than an hour to
modify and test.  (I'm banking on Qpopper source being cleaner
than, say, Sendmail... it's been awhile since I've looked.)


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Eddy

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