On 17.4.2012, at 17.21, Götz Reinicke wrote: > recently I checked our mailserver for some more tuning and optimizing > and noticed, that currently I do have 487 imap-login processes and I'm > asking myself if that's o.k. > > We do have about 1.000 user in total and not everybody is currently > logged in. > > May be this is o.k. but if not, what might I check?
Normal in "high-security mode": http://wiki.dovecot.org/LoginProcess Most of those 487 processes are probably handling SSL traffic.