You can also use the conf option below:

# Show more verbose process titles (in ps). Currently shows user name and # IP address. Useful for seeing who are actually using the IMAP processes # (eg. shared mailboxes or if same uid is used for multiple accounts). verbose_proctitle = yes

--- Rob Middleton robm-dovecot@centenary.org.au wrote:

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Hey guys, Is there a way to extract the concurrent connectons to a dovecot servers? Got a fairly busy installation that Id like to monitor/graph concurrent connections for.

Dean Manners wrote: ps axl|grep -E "imap$"|wc -l

each active, authenticated imap session is a separate process ... same for pop3: ps axl|grep -E "pop3$"|wc -l

There may well be a more complicated way, or a way to get the info out of the root dovecot process.

Rob.