Michael Loftis wrote: [snip] > Read it once, and then cache the result in the session information (or > even in a cookie) along with a 'freshness' -- and when the timeout has > expired, re-check it (say 1 minute, or five). Same thing with the LDAP > auth. Re-authing every single page load is not necessary.
Better yet, only update it when you absolute need to (meaning: only when you are checking mail or making a change to your mailbox by deleting, moving or renaming). That should work - of course providing your web portal is functioning as a mail client (checking mail/etc) and not -only- interacting with imap to retrieve the quota.
HTH,
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