When is imapproxy usefull?

[Nic Bernstein]

Dilyan,
In my own experience, an IMAP proxy is helpfulfor webmail clients, in 
that the proxy can maintain a persistent connection to the IMAP server, 
thus saving the time & CPU cycles which would otherwise go in to 
bringing up and tearing down the TCP/IP sessions.  This isespecially 
important for web clients which are using frames (like SquirrelMail) or 
would otherwise spawn multiple connections to the IMAP server.

The best performance may be had by placing the proxy on the web server, 
so the bulk of the connections can happen via Unix sockets, or localhost 
TCP/IP connections.  Then just a handful of IMAP connections happen 
between the web and IMAP servers.

I've used the old imapproxyd, as well as Perdition, for this.  I have 
not tried nginx, so cannot speak to that.

I hope this is useful information,
     -nic

On 3/9/20 12:10 PM, Дилян Палаузов wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the documentation on performance of Horde/Imp: 
> https://www.horde.org/apps/imp/docs/PERFORMANCE recommends installing 
> an imap proxy , e.g. the one from 
> https://squirrelmail.org/download.php which ceased deveopment decades 
> ago. The idea is that horde/imp/the-webmail-client connects to the 
> imap-proxy and this should make everything faster.
>
> Does such an imap-proxy make things faster for a webmail client? Is 
> nginx-imap-proxy or anything else better than squirrelmail-imap-proxy?
>
> Greetings
> Дилян 


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