NAME¶
imapproxyd - IMAP proxy daemon
SYNOPSIS¶
imapproxyd [
-f <config file name> ] [
-p <pidfile
name> ]
DESCRIPTION¶
This manual page documents briefly the
imapproxyd command. This manual
page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does
not have a manual page.
UP-ImapProxy proxies IMAP transactions between an IMAP client and an IMAP
server. The general idea is that the client should never know that it is not
talking to the real IMAP server, but ImapProxy caches server connections.
ImapProxy was written to compensate for webmail clients that are unable to
maintain persistent connections to an IMAP server. Most webmail clients need
to log in to an IMAP server for nearly every single transaction; This
behaviour can cause tragic performance problems on the IMAP server. ImapProxy
tries to deal with this problem by leaving server connections open for a short
time after a webmail client logs out. When the webmail client connects again,
ImapProxy will determine if there is a cached connection available and reuse
it if possible.
FILES¶
By default, UP-ImapProxy reads /etc/imapproxy.conf on startup. This can be
changed by using the
-f option
Unless foreground_mode has been enabled, UP-ImapProxy will write its PID to to a
PID-file. It defaults to /var/run/imapproxy.pid, but can be overridden with
the
-p option
SEE ALSO¶
pimpstat(8),
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by Jose Luis Tallon
<jltallon@adv-solutions.net>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may
be used by others).