[Dovecot] Config questionsabout various login parms

[Mike Brudenell]

On 7 Mar 2007, at 16:21, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> If you're not using SSL then after user has logged in, the login  
> process
> knows nothing about the user anymore and it's free to serve another
> user.

And if you are using SSL?  (Which, I'm sure, Stewart will get to in  
time)...

If I remember other postings correctly then the login process does  
know something about the user: it acts as a proxy, passing data  
through from the IMAP client to the imap server process (and  
presumably back again?).

Is that right?  ... If so, then this was where the "Too many open  
files" problem arose in an earlier thread (the stdio library on  
Solaris defaulting to only allow 256 descriptors, or something).

Like Stewart, I'm doing the slow turtle-speed crawl and don't have  
SSL in place yet.  But when I get that far one of the things I have  
on my checklist is to verify I can open more than 256 SSL connections  
to the server at a time: potentially we'll need 1,000-2,000 at a time  
as use of IMAP over SSL increases.

Cheers,
Mike B-)

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