Webmail applications that are kind to the IMAP server?

[Russell Packer]

> -- Gary Mills <mills at cc.umanitoba.ca> is rumored to have mumbled
> on Montag,
> 2. September 2002 11:20 Uhr -0500 regarding Webmail applications that are
> kind to the IMAP server?:
>
> > 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?
>
> We haven't been able to find any in our evaluation of webmail systems.
> We've chosen IMP for our webmail (<https://webmail.uni-koeln.de>)
> in spite
> of this issue. What bugs me is that the PHP module that's used for IMP
> seems to have a flag that basically says "use persistent connections".  I
> have no idea why the developers chose not to use it ...
> --
>

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