Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 14:55 -0800, Seth Mattinen wrote: >> 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 > > Yes, but I think it's not all that much extra work.
I've never benchmarked it, but I do hate seeing it cycle through connect/auth/do nothing/disconnect because someone is clicking refresh as fast as they possibly can for some unknown reason. >> and running it through AUTH (which executes an SQL call in my case) > > Enabling auth cache would avoid it. > True, but there's a small risk someone could get locked out of their mail box for a short time, which isn't acceptable in my environment. ~Seth
