[Dovecot] architecture to handle 1000 messages per second?

[Timo Sirainen]

On 1.1.2010, at 18.15, Bob Eastbrook wrote:

> I think it might be difficult to accomplish this via POP since I think
> Dovecot would have to lock the account while doing the POP downloads.
> This makes it difficult to have more than one app downloading at a
> time.

The locking behavior is optional, and disabled by default (pop3_lock_session).