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).