On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:26:23AM +0100, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > This is not so much a problem as an 'I wonder'... > > > > I currently use dovecot imap with maildir to support several dozen > > folders containing several gigabytes of mail using Thunderbird as a mail > > client. This "works" - but I am surprised by the number of imap > > processes that the mail server is running to support a single > > Thunderbird client... it appears that there is one connection per folder > > and one process per connection... which seems (to me at least) to be > > overkill. > > Having never used dovecot, I can't comment on this. But maybe this can be > changed in a configuration file somewhere?
Confirm. There are a few settings regarding exactly this issue. Check out all the "login_process*" and "login_max*" options at least. Regards -Roman -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
