[Dovecot] Webmail app ... again.

[Sean Kamath]

On Aug 13, 2008, at 10:32 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Aug 14, 2008, at 1:26 AM, Sean Kamath wrote:
>
>> But the big killer is scaleability and handling multiple servers,  
>> which is why some sort of front end like IMAPProxy are attractive.
>
> I've heard that imapproxy isn't all that useful with Dovecot once  
> auth cache is enabled and set large enough. It'll then just  
> basically replace Dovecot's process fork(s) with the overhead of its  
> own.
>

Oops, good point, I'd forgotten about that whole discussion from a few  
months ago.

So the only real benefit to keeping cached connections would be in  
saving the TCP overhead, I guess...

Sean