On Seg, 2009-09-28 at 14:06 -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 19:02 +0100, Ed W wrote:
> > > Proxy servers are usually set between the webmail and the imap server.
> > >
> > > That's because webmails are a bitch regarding opening+closing
> > > connections and so the proxy gets mos
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 14:06 -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Yeah. imapproxy probably reduces the load a bit, but it probably isn't
> anything dramatic with Dovecot. My guess is that it would only reduce
> CPU load, but if it's at ~1% already then there's not that much point..
BTW. I'm only talking a
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 19:02 +0100, Ed W wrote:
> > Proxy servers are usually set between the webmail and the imap server.
> >
> > That's because webmails are a bitch regarding opening+closing
> > connections and so the proxy gets most of connection + auth + do
> > something + disconnect and keeps a
Jose Celestino wrote:
On Seg, 2009-09-28 at 15:55 +0100, Ed W wrote:
You didn't get much answer to this - I'm probably not the best person to
answer, but
Are there any performance benefits to using a proxying server, or is it just
for splitting mailstores?
I think this is th
On Seg, 2009-09-28 at 15:55 +0100, Ed W wrote:
> You didn't get much answer to this - I'm probably not the best person to
> answer, but
>
> > Are there any performance benefits to using a proxying server, or is it just
> > for splitting mailstores?
> >
>
> I think this is the main reason for
You didn't get much answer to this - I'm probably not the best person to
answer, but
Are there any performance benefits to using a proxying server, or is it just
for splitting mailstores?
I think this is the main reason for the proxying option. It would
appear that others have measured
Hi,
I'm planning on a new mail infrastructure which constists of multiple
'frontends' running webmail & public access pop/imap, which would communicate
over imap/pop to 'backend mail stores'. My original idea was to run dovecot
on the backends, use a predition on the frontends to proxy imap/pop
