[imp] performance question

[Alan W. Rateliff, II]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Markus Krause" <krause at biochem.mpg.de>
To: "Horde ML" <horde at lists.horde.org>; "IMP/Horde ML" <imp at lists.horde.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 11:02 AM
Subject: [imp] performance question


> but we have a problem with the performance (what was one reason for the
> decision to replace the current webmail system), unfortunatly the old
> webmail-system is faster! the reason is: the old system does only login
> once and stays logged in untill the users logs out again. afaik from the
> /var/log/imap (we are using uw-imap, well we plan to move to cyrus but
> this is a "todo project") every mail-related action from horde/imp
> results in a authentication and a logout. i understand (or can at least
> imagine some arguments) the idea/reason for this, but is there a way to
> change this behavior?

Try using imapproxy and see how that helps you (from the Horde projects
page.)  On at least one of my systems this has increased performance a
noticibly since the IMAP daemon doesn't have to process the mail file with
every connection.  We are using UW-IMAPd as well.

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