Re: DB mail

[wagnerc@plebeian.com (Chris Wagner)]

At 08:33 AM 9/25/2006 +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
>there's also the fact that thousands of simultaneous POP/IMAP
>connections are far easier for a server to handle than thousands of
>simultaneous database connections. most databases can't even handle that
>number of connections.

The "right way" to do it is to have the mail server frontend open a small
number of database connections and then reuse those for all users.  The
number of connections is usually going to be 2x the number of CPU's the
database has available.  Or something like that, it depends on ur setup.






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