[Dovecot] Lots of pop3-logins

[Jose Celestino]

On Qui, 2009-06-25 at 09:07 -0500, Rodman Frowert wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Doing a "ps aux" on my Slackware box, I have approx 100  PID's of "pop3-login's going on.  This is a production mail server, but it is getting VERY low traffic.  In fact, only 3 people can "pop3" into it.  I've check their e-mail clients, and they are not checking mail any more often than every 5 minutes.
> 
> This is a new installation and I've had the server up and running since Sunday.  If it matters, I'm using Postfix for the MTA and using the Dovecot SASL library to AUTH SMTP.
> 
> Is this a cause for concern?  Why does Dovecot need this many processes?
> 

Because dovecot preforks the *-login processes to speed-up the login.

No need to worry.


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