[Dovecot] limits to serve sure a number of users

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 22:03 +0200, Schmidt wrote:

> lets say dovcot should serve 1000 user (only imaps) without rejecting a 
> users connection because of to short resources.
> With version 1.x I had to increase login_max_processes_count = ...

You could set the same settings and see what doveconf converts them to.

> With 2.x I'm not sure which parameters I have to set.
> So Thunderbird 3.x has a default value of 5 connections to cache. 
> "dovadm who" shows quite often 5 connections:
> 
> userx 5 imap  (11154 11152 11158 11156 11150) ...
> 
> So dovecot has to be configured for 5000 connections/imap-login's?

Yeah, or at that point probably switch to high-performance mode with
fewer processes. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LoginProcess