Re: [Dovecot] mail_max_userip_connections

On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 11:24 -0800, Richard Stockton wrote:

What is the appropriate setting for mail_max_userip_connections ?

My POP3 connections seem to be mostly 1 at a time,

Right, there's rarely need for more.

but my IMAP connections are often 3 per user per IP. Is this appropriate?

Thunderbird by default can use 5 connections I think.

If I change the IMAP setting to mail_max_userip_connections=1 will it break things for the user?

Probably.

I am trying to improve this situation:

...

ps auxwww | grep "imap " | wc 237 3080 22400

What's the problem with that? Are you running out of memory? v2.0 adds initial support for handling multiple connections in one process.