Doubt with imap/imap-login processes in proxy server

[Aki Tuomi]

> On April 7, 2017 at 1:26 PM "Angel L. Mateo" <amateo at um.es> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 	I have a question I have not cleared after reading 
> https://wiki.dovecot.org/LoginProcess.
> 
> 	I'm developing a proxy server (without director, because the backend 
> server is specified by a ldap lookup).
> 
> 	My question is: the limit of imap (or pop3) concurrently users that the 
> proxy can handle is determined by the imap-login limit or the imap one?
> 
> -- 
> Angel L. Mateo Martínez

imap-login can handle quite a number of connections (thousands), and imap process is not usually spawned on proxies.

Aki