[imp] does IMP have to login into IMAP for every page?

[Lord Apollyon]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> Zitat von Karolis Dautartas <list at public.lt>:
> 
> > hi IMP users,
> >
> > I noticed that IMP3 does a login to IMAP server every time you click
> > on some webmail page. I was wondering why it does it that way. Why not
> > store the required info in the session instead of logging in so many
> > times?
> >
> > It is pretty inconvenient too. If I change password from my webmail,
> > I am being logged out and have to re-login again.
> >
> > Am I missing something?
> 
> Yes, the fact that HTTP is a stateless protocol and that PHP has a
> share-nothing architecture.

The use of imap-proxies greatly help with these issues and more.

=R=