On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 10:40 +0100, wwl wrote: > Hello Group, > > is it possible to Limit the number of pop/imap requests to Dovecot? > > I read the Wiki and found > > max_mail_processes = 512 > > is this the way to limit this ?
This limits the number of simultaneous IMAP and POP3 connections. Is that what you mean with "requests"? If so, yeah, you can reduce this value. I think the counts are tracked separately for IMAP and POP3 (so you can have 512 IMAP and 512 POP3 connections).