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
