[Dovecot] v1.1 max connections per user

Christian Balzer chibi at gol.com
Sun Jul 1 06:44:42 EEST 2007


On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:12:30 -0400 Bill Cole
<dovecot-20061108 at billmail.scconsult.com> wrote:
> 
> Do concurrent sessions for POP3 really ever make sense?
>
See http://wiki.dovecot.org/POP3Server "Session locking" for a rationale 
why dovecot defaults to allowing it. Another scenario would be a 
pop3 client at home downloading (leaving mail on the server) while
the actual customer is looking at the mailbox with a pop3 webmail
interface. 

I suppose we would set mail_max_user_connections to 15 for IMAP
(though having to support corporate mailboxes with a potentially 
large number of distinct clients might render this feature moot here
and force us to set it to 30-50) and 2-3 for POP3. 
While at the same time I'll be praying that 1.5 million logins/day 
won't cause the tracking code for this to melt or leak memory. ;)

Regards,

Christian
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Christian Balzer        Network/Systems Engineer                NOC
chibi at gol.com   	Global OnLine Japan/Fusion Network Services
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