Régis Décamps wrote: > On 10/17/06, Steve [Gentoo] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm no longer so sure about when imap processes are spawned or >> terminated - but there seem to >> be a non-deterministic "lots" of them for each Thunderbird session. > There is one process create each time Thunderbird opens a new > connection, up to a limit which should be configured in your imap > server (MAXPERIP for courier-imap) I couldn't find a setting for this in dovecot... > Thunderbird opens a connection each time a new folder is accessed, and > closes them when it has reach a limit which is configured in "Account > Setting", <account>, "Server settings", "Advanced", "maximum unmber of > connections to cache" ...but, given that gem, it doesn't matter to me any longer. I've reduced the setting in Thunderbird to something sensibly small and things are running far more smoothly now.
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