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)