--On Wednesday, February 27, 2002 11:14 -0500 Cyrus Daboo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yes, one connection is used to do periodic STATUS polls of all mailboxes > you have marked for new mail checking. Then a new connection is used when > you actually open a mailbox. When a mailbox is open, the checking is done > via that connection using NOOPs. Based on the brief description that Larry > had provided I'm guessing the caching happens on for the connection where > the mailbox is SELECT'ed - i.e. the one where the mailbox is opened by the > user - and not the STATUS connection. The code is the definitive source > for this... >From what I can tell it was indeed caching the seen states, and only invalidating the cache when the length of the seen file became longer than the cached version. I modified my server to allow for checking based on modification time (in map_refresh()). I made it optional because there are lots of other routines that use map_refresh() other than the seen database. So far it appears to be working. Alec -- Alec H. Peterson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technology Officer Catbird Networks, http://www.catbird.com
