[Dovecot] Limit the number of pop/imap requests

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 10:40 +0100, wwl wrote:
> Hello Group,
> 
> is it possible to Limit the number of pop/imap requests to Dovecot?
> 
> I read the Wiki and found
> 
>    max_mail_processes = 512
> 
> is this the way to limit this ?

This limits the number of simultaneous IMAP and POP3 connections. Is
that what you mean with "requests"? If so, yeah, you can reduce this
value. I think the counts are tracked separately for IMAP and POP3 (so
you can have 512 IMAP and 512 POP3 connections).