[Dovecot] o/s tuning for imap

[Marcin Michal Jessa]

Russell E. Meek wrote:
> 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.
A propos proxy. Is it possible to run dovecot as an IMAP proxy with load
balancing the same way it is possible with Courier and Cyrus? If not, is
it on the TODO list?

BTW, it's in pkgsrc if you're using FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, OpenBSD,
Solaris etc. as well ;-)

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Cheers,
Marcin.