[Dovecot] Lot of connections IMAP

Davide davide.marchi at mail.cgilfe.it
Thu Sep 26 13:27:39 EEST 2013


Many thanks for explanation; do you have implemented high security mode 
or high performance mode with loginprocess


Il 26/09/2013 11:33, Arnaud Abélard ha scritto:
> On 09/26/2013 09:47 AM, voytek at sbt.net.au wrote:
>> On Thu, September 26, 2013 5:41 pm, Davide wrote:
>>> Hi to all, i have dovecot 2.2.5 when i digit doveadm who i see a lot of
>>> connections IMAP for single user liker the example below
>>>
>>> xxxxx.yyyyyy at mail.cgilfe.it 9 imap (20572 20614 19120 20653 19136 20655
>>> 19138 20661 20471) (192.168.x.xxx)
>>>
>>>
>>> Why so many IMAP?
>>
>> I think(?), it's that IMAP mail clients keep connections to each IMAP
>> folder they access...
>>
>>
>>
>
> Exactly and even 9 imap processes for one user isn't that bad. If most 
> of our users use around 5 processess it's not exceptionnel to have 
> have 20 processes for one user. We have users who check their mail on 
> their smartphones and on their desktop, some of those have around 80 
> imap process just for them...
>
> Arnaud
>
>
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