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Allan

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I am using the imap installed with DA, but have had a friend complain that when using outlook he gets a error when connected more then once..

Is there a way to increase the maximum number of concurrent connections a user has ?
 
If you haven't converted to Dovecot/Maildir then you probably should. You can't manage an mbox email box from multiple connections doing different things since it's only one file.

Jeff
 
I have WU-Imap on the server with the problem, however i am installing a replacement machine at the moment which is on centos 5.1 and i think it installs devecot as standard
 
Ok i have setup the second server running devecot now, but it has 16 pop3-logins process's running and 16 x imap-logins running is this normal ?
 
ah ok, so it is just a setting, no problem then i just wondered why it was running so many of the process rather then starting them as needed
 
I recently lowered mine on my server and it had no affect on the system.

These are the 2 settings I am using now:

login_processes_count = 3
login_max_processes_count = 25
 
Well it does affect your system, though under most load conditions the affect may be negligible.

login_processes_count = 3
login_max_processes_count = 25
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means your server will always run a minimum of three login processes, then add more as needed until a maximum of 25 are running. Which means a maximum of 25 email users can get email at one time.

Jeff
 
Yeah didnt know if it was number of child processes or num of users. I just didnt see the need for a ton of processes running at once if it didnt need to be. These settings work for me however others may want to raise them.
 
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