On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Jeroen Geilman <[email protected]> wrote:
Jeroen, thanks for your comments. Websocket is a new protocol to enable persistent, full-duplex, efficient > connections to web servers. > > However, it is just HTTP, right ? > Websockets are HTTP-initiated, but messages passed after initiation have very low overhead, and there's no request/response sequence. The big reason not to use IMAP is that it's not efficient for 5K+ > concurrently connected clients. > > Says who ? Have you tested this ? > I found a discussion about it on the dovecot mailing list. > I'm hoping LMTP doesn't mandate a distinct TCP connection to a server for > each message, > > It supports streaming and pipelining just as SMTP does. but each recipient > is immediately accepted or permanently rejected. > Ah, so LMTP can't tell its client to try again later? It seems I'll be writing an SMTP server...
