On Sat, June 30, 2007 7:50 pm, Charles Marcus said:
Timo Sirainen, on 6/30/2007 7:25 PM, said the following:
On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 19:11 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
Timo Sirainen, on 6/30/2007 6:43 PM, said the following:
v1.1 has now:
# Maximum number of connections allowed for a user. The limits are enforced # separately for IMAP and POP3 connections, so you can move this setting # inside protocol {} to have separate settings for them. NOTE: The user names # are compared case-sensitively, so make sure your userdb returns usernames # always using the same casing so users can't bypass this limit! #mail_max_user_connections = 10
Is 10 a good default? I'm assuming this is per IP?
No. I'm not sure if it should. Perhaps. It's mostly intended to prevent unintentional abuse by stupid clients, so having 3+ thunderbirds open in different locations with each having 5 connections should probably be allowed.
Ok - you said 10 was the default - but then said that 15 (3 TBirds x 5) connections should be allowed, which is more than 10... so... you just meant that one could accommodate that by upping this limit to 15?
I like 15. That way it is high and isn't as likely to affect existing installations unless they manually set it to something lower. Or if you want to have a separate default for POP vs IMAP, I'd use 5 for POP and 15 for IMAP.