On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 17:23 +0200, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: > I'm seeing that IMAP connection open takes about a second, depending on > RTT. Most of that is STARTTLS and AUTHENTICATE processing.
<...> > So in the best case you're looking at performance improvements below one > per cent. If you want actual improvements, look at keeping IMAP > connections alive for longer, so you don't have to incur the startup > cost so often. Or make it possible to start up a new session without the cost of the STARTTLS and AUTHENTICATE steps. You can do that by configuring your MUA to access the IMAP server by executing the command 'fsh $mailhost exec imapd'. Fsh is a python program which multiplexes many remotely invoked programs over a single SSH session: http://www.lysator.liu.se/fsh/ It obviously won't work out-of-the-box with SquirrelMail as it can with many other IMAP clients, but it shouldn't be so hard to make it work. -- dwmw2
