Webmail applications that are kind to the IMAP server?

[Jerome M Berkman]

IMHO uses persistent IMAP connections.  It is the only one I've heard
of.  It uses the roxen web server, which I've heard is easy to
install.  I've never used IMHO or roxen; if anyone has, I'd be
interested in their opinion.  The web site is:

	http://www.lysator.liu.se/~stewa/IMHO/

	- Jerry Berkman, UC Berkeley


On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Gary Mills wrote:

> We recently did a test of the IMP e-mail web application with fifteen
> simultaneous users, who were instructed to use IMP as rapidly as they
> could.  The load average on our Cyrus/sendmail mail server rose to 14,
> with `imapd' processes consuming most of the CPU.  I'm assuming that
> this happened because IMP starts a new IMAP session for each web
> transaction initiated by the user.
> 
> Are there any e-mail web applications that are better behaved, in that
> they utilize a single IMAP session for the duration of the user's web
> session?  Are they otherwise as attractive as IMP?
> 
> Are there ways to improve the performance of Cyrus when it's being
> used by ill-behaved web applications?  Can Cyrus defend itself against
> this sort of IMAP activity?
> 
> -- 
> -Gary Mills-    -Unix Support-    -U of M Academic Computing and Networking-
>