[Dovecot] pop3_lock_session question

Seth Mattinen sethm at rollernet.us
Thu Feb 5 00:55:51 EET 2009


Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 13:23 -0800, Seth Mattinen wrote:
>> Like imapproxy which holds the connection for subsequent requests to
>> avoid the short-lived HTTP connection issue. I certainly recommend it
>> for squirrelmail installations since squirrelmail can't IDLE the connection.
> 
> I've heard imapproxy doesn't help all that much with Dovecot. Do you (or
> anyone) have any actual statistics?
> 

It does prevent spawning a separate IMAP process and running it through
AUTH (which executes an SQL call in my case) every time a webmail user
clicks on multiple things like a rabid squirrel with attention deficit
disorder. No hard numbers though.

~Seth


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