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.

       IMAP Proxy 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 IMAP Proxy caches server
       connections.

       IMAP  Proxy  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.  IMAP Proxy
       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, IMAP Proxy will determine if there is a cached
       connection available and reuse it if possible.

FILES

       By default, IMAP Proxy reads /etc/imapproxy.conf on startup.  This can be changed by using the -f option

       Unless foreground_mode has been enabled, IMAP Proxy will write its PID to to a PID-file. It  defaults  to
       /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).

                                                   2016-11-22                                      IMAPPROXYD(8)