[Dovecot] How many concurrent IMAP sessions?

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Patrick Ben Koetter <p at state-of-mind.de>:
> Has anybody ever bothered to measure how many concurrent IMAP sessions dovecot
> can handle?
> 
> I know it depends on hardware, filesystem, mailbox type etc., but what exactly
> controls the number and what have people on the list measured?

We usually have 1200 simultaneous connections during the day, that'S about 8%
of our total accounts on the box.

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