Webmail applications that are kind to the IMAP server?

[Eric.Doutreleau at int-evry.fr]

On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:

Hi

There s CAMAS Webmail + Caudium Web server that use persitant connection.
http://camas.caudium.net


> -- Russell Packer <russell.packer at voxsurf.com> is rumored to have mumbled 
> on Montag, 2. September 2002 17:55 Uhr +0100 regarding RE: Webmail 
> applications that are kind to the IMAP server?:
> 
> > Squirrel Mail?
> 
> They seem to use the same approach:
> 
> > SquirrelMail makes a new IMAP connection with every folder and mail
> > operation. That means, with each click, the IMAP server gets another user
> > logged in, a tiny itty bitty request is made, then the IMAP session is
> > shut down.
> >
> > Why?
> >
> > Because we can not open persistent connections with PHP for each user on
> > your system. We tried pconnect, but we could only make it open one
> > connection, not one connection per user (perhaps you can see a BIG
> > difference like we did).
> >
> > As a result, sometimes your IMAP server doesn't let us log in, due to the
> > number of ConnectionsPerMinute.
> >
> > We are thinking of making an IMAP gateway to hopefully speed things up,
> > but that is still in planning.
> >
> > If you can figure out a nice way to make PHP create a new persistent
> > connection with PHP, we'd love to hear it. Until then, we are stuck with
> > the immense overhead involved with nearly every IMAP mail server for each
> > click.
> 
> Seems like I found the answer to my question, though ... ;-)
> --
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