dovecot - Dec 2009 - mail_max_userip_connections

What is the appropriate setting for mail_max_userip_connections ?

My POP3 connections seem to be mostly 1 at a time, but my IMAP
connections are often 3 per user per IP.  Is this appropriate?
If I change the IMAP setting to mail_max_userip_connections=1
will it break things for the user?

I am trying to improve this situation:
 > ps auxwww | grep "imap " | wc
     237    3080   22400

TIA,
  - Richard

On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 11:24 -0800, Richard Stockton
wrote:
> What is the appropriate setting for mail_max_userip_connections ?
> 
> My POP3 connections seem to be mostly 1 at a time, 
Right, there's rarely need for more.
> but my IMAP
> connections are often 3 per user per IP.  Is this appropriate?
Thunderbird by default can use 5 connections I think.
> If I change the IMAP setting to mail_max_userip_connections=1
> will it break things for the user?
Probably.
> I am trying to improve this situation:
>  > ps auxwww | grep "imap " | wc
>      237    3080   22400
What's the problem with that? Are you running out of memory? v2.0 adds
initial support for handling multiple connections in one process.

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