The IMHO webmail for the Roxen web server, and the derived CAMAS for
Caudim webserver both use persistent IMAP connections. I've used an old
version of IMHO for quite some without any major problems.
Mikael
URLS:
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~stewa/IMHO/
http://camas.caudium.net/camas/index.rxml
I'm not sure how the httpd processes are being tied up, but tied up
imapds that are otherwise idle don't cost you anything except some swap
and a process table entry. They're basicly free.
Unless the imap connection has a mailbox open. That ties up a potentially
very large memory resource
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Ted Fines wrote:
Unless the imap connection has a mailbox open. That ties up a potentially
very large memory resource (depending on the size of the mailbox) on the
server.
I have to say I don't know for certain whether that's true for the cyrus
imapd, but for other
Does anyone know of an e-mail web application that doesn't abuse the
IMAP server by making short connections? Most of them simply connect
and disconnect with each HTTP transaction. Is there one that behaves
the same as an IMAP client, using one connection for the duration of
the session. An
Prayer does. You'll have to google it, though. I don't know much about
it.
Thanks,
Dave
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On Tue, 10
Gary Mills wrote:
Does anyone know of an e-mail web application that doesn't abuse the
IMAP server by making short connections? Most of them simply connect
and disconnect with each HTTP transaction. Is there one that behaves
the same as an IMAP client, using one connection for the duration of
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 09:27:13PM -0400, Ken Murchison wrote:
Gary Mills wrote:
Does anyone know of an e-mail web application that doesn't abuse the
IMAP server by making short connections? Most of them simply connect
and disconnect with each HTTP transaction. Is there one that behaves
