[Dovecot] Dovecot performance under high load (vs. Courier)

[Jan-Frode Myklebust]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:44:33PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > 
> > additionally you should install imapproxy on the webserver
> > wehre your webmail is running and configure the webmail for
> > using 127.0.0.1 - so only one connection per user is
> > persistent instead make a new one for each ajax-request
> 
> Someone benchmarked Dovecot a while ago in this list with and without imapproxy and the results showed that imapproxy simply slowed things down by adding extra latency. This probably isn't true for all installations, but I don't think there's much of a difference either way.
> 

That was me, there ->  http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-February/063666.html



  -jf