[imp] How to generate load using imp

[Andrew Morgan]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2011, Piotr Legiecki wrote:

>>> Jmeter tests apache, but my IMAP server is on another machine. Is this 
>>> testing environment suitable for jmeter?
>> 
>> It tests any web server. And you want to test your webmail frontend, no?
>> 
>
> I don't think so ;-/
> What I want to do is to put work load *using* Imp4 on the mail server 
> (uw-imapd) which is on another machine.
>
> I think Horde/Imp is fine, configured OK (when I test it it is working ok), 
> but UW-imap is ill behaving when it sees the new Imp setup *plus* load caused 
> by lets say 50-100 people. So I want to simulate those 50 people reading 
> mails.
>
> The same two servers were ok before with Imp3 (but there I could set up mail/ 
> folder easly). So it is not the problem to handle such traffic, the problem 
> must be somewhere between Imp4/servers.php and UW-Imapd.
>
> Removing UW-Imap is actually out of question (I'm not an admin there).
> P.

Running imapproxy on your IMP server to cache connections to UW-IMAP will 
probably fix your performance problem.

 	Andy