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Performance

pyWM should be very fast in most circumstances. Here's some suggestions.

  1. Make the POP3 and SMTP servers very accessible. The ideal scenario is to install pyWM directly on the mail server. Obviously, this is not always possible. But pyWM will perform the best when the connection between it (the webserver) and the mail server is as fast as possible.

    It is not an exaggeration to say that most of pyWMs time will be spend waiting on data transfers to/from the mail server(s).

  2. Make the POP3 and SMTP records IP addresses. If you provide pyWM a hostname as your *_server variables, it will look up the hostname *every* time it needs to make a connection. Unfortunately, in most cases, the DNS system is quite slow and somewhat unreliable. Use IP addresses.


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