Re: Thunderbird's IMAP connections.
Steve Lamb wrote:
Nate Duehr wrote:
How about syncing all folders while still reading and
deleting/replying to other mail? Works great.
Still don't see the need for more than 2 connections in that
situation. 1 active connection and one for overflow. At the very
least they could be intelligent about it and open another connection
each time any current connection is in use for, say, seconds. That
would always leave a single connection dedicated to the user's
immediate request while keeping the server load to a minimum.
[snipped...]
I think that the default of 5 connections works well on modern IMAP
servers most companies would buy. When I had my home IMAP on a box
similar to yours it pushed the load too high and I found the same as you
that 2 worked better overall. I eventually "gave up" and upgraded the
mail server massively as I have other users and people where whining.
SpamAssassin and other stuff on the box plus heavy IMAP use just pushed
it a bit over the top. It's now an Athlon 2500 with 1G RAM and even
SquirrelMail is relatively speedy on it.
You couldn't hold a gun to my head and make me go back to POP3 after
this many years of running IMAP though. ;-) Yeah, it needs more server
resources, but even my oldest slowest stupidest boxes can look up any of
thousands of saved messages... and ALL my mail is available on any
machine. Pulling mail to the client machine seems so wrong if you get
used to the whole IMAP thing.
Nate
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