On 10/16/06, Roman Zilka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
Exactly, and on the client side as well. If you reduce the number of
processes per IP on the server, the client might have some
difficulties and complain aboout "connection impossible".
All IMAP open several threads like this, and I believe it improves
performance. Why would you change this?
Be warned though that IMAP servers handle the INBOX differently (some
pretend everything is in INBOX, like INBOX/Sent ; others present
folders at the same level than INBOX)
That said, I like dovecot and courier-imap equally ; and I don't like UW-imap.
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