[Dovecot] o/s tuning for imap

[Russell E. Meek]

Quoting Ken A <ka at pacific.net>:

> I'm switching from a pop3 only dovecot install to a pop3/imap install
> and I'm wondering how many connections every 100 'normal' imap users
> might have/keep open? I'm wondering if I need to tweak any o/s related
> things, like time_wait, etc. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Ken A.

OS related tweaks, probably not.  However you could utilize a imap  
proxy such as up-imapproxy which if using FreeBSD is in ports.

Visit: http://www.imapproxy.org/ to learn more.

This should relieve the load on Dovecot.

Thanks,

- Russell

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