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Subject: Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP
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>
> I haven't looked at dovecot.  Does it maintain a group of listeners,
> similar to apache's, to handle incoming requests as courier-imap does?

you can set listening IP in config or *, not much more. if i do understand 
your question. no such many options like apache.

>
> So far we have had excellent performance with courier-imap at sites with
> about 10,000 mail clients hitting a single server (most of whom are using
> the POP interface as these are ISP sites).

mine has 500-1000 clients, but makes unnoticable load. looks like both are 
OK.