[Dovecot] o/s tuning for imap

[David Jonas]

Marcin Michal Jessa wrote:
> Russell E. Meek wrote:
>> Quoting Ken A <ka at pacific.net>:
>>
>>> I'm switching from a pop3 only dovecot install to a pop3/imap install
>>> and I'm wondering how many connections every 100 'normal' imap users
>>> might have/keep open? I'm wondering if I need to tweak any o/s related
>>> things, like time_wait, etc. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ken A.
>> OS related tweaks, probably not.  However you could utilize a imap
>> proxy such as up-imapproxy which if using FreeBSD is in ports.
> A propos proxy. Is it possible to run dovecot as an IMAP proxy with load
> balancing the same way it is possible with Courier and Cyrus? If not, is
> it on the TODO list?

http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/ImapProxy

Works quite well here.