[Dovecot] Lots of pop3-logins

[Rodman Frowert]

Jose,

Thank you for your reply.  Makes me feel better everything is working
properly and resources aren't being wasted.  Thank you!

Rodman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jose Celestino" <japc at co.sapo.pt>
To: "Rodman Frowert" <rodman at thefrowerts.com>
Cc: <dovecot at dovecot.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Lots of pop3-logins


> 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.
>
>
> -- Jose Celestino SAPO.pt::Systems http://www.sapo.pt
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