You can also use the conf option below:

Show more verbose process titles (in ps). Currently shows user name and

IP address. Useful for seeing who are actually using the IMAP processes

(eg. shared mailboxes or if same uid is used for multiple accounts).

verbose_proctitle = yes

--- Rob Middleton <robm-dovecot@centenary.org.au> wrote:

Dean Manners wrote:

...

Hey guys, Is there a way to extract the concurrent connectons to a dovecot servers? Got a fairly busy installation that Id like to monitor/graph concurrent connections for. ps axl|grep -E "imap$"|wc -l

each active, authenticated imap session is a separate process ... same for pop3: ps axl|grep -E "pop3$"|wc -l

There may well be a more complicated way, or a way to get the info out of the root dovecot process.

Rob.