Didn't Dave write up.imapproxy? It makes a huge difference for, e.g., IMP & roundcube. Also, configuring client to not retrieve the LIST of mailboxes during every transaction is a big win.
:wes On 16 Nov 2010, at 10:11, Shuvam Misra wrote: > Most programming environments in which such > Webmail thingies are written (mostly PHP on the server and nowadays > lots of Javascript on the browser) cannot keep an IMAP connection to the > Cyrus server open between pages, therefore each time a user clicks on a > folder or does any other operation, there's this fresh IMAP connection > and a huge surge of IMAP operations while the folder contents are listed > afresh, etc. This puts a lot of load on the server. I guess Webmail is > OT on a Cyrus mailing list, but can't help asking: any suggestions for > improving Webmail performance? ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
