Re: [exim] Exim Performance / Server Performance

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 11:01:44PM +0200, Michael Haardt said:
> The German market may be odd, but I see at least half of all email
> services offering IMAP here, even for free accounts. My employer is
> no exception and offers IMAP for free accounts since a couple years
> now. Restricting users to POP in order to save storage is past.

It's not just storage. Some clients open massive numbers of connections
via IMAP. Mail.app on OSX seems to create one for every folder! I've had
to tweak max connections and max connections per IP for this reason to
insane numbers. Ugg.