We're going to be using nginx to do imap and pop3 proxying. As some of you know, we are the the mercy of the mail client as to the number of connections that we will see from a user's client. In extreme cases, if a user has 40 Folders, their client will create 1 connection for each folder. In this situation, we'll see 10s of connections for just 1 user. I couldn't find any config settings toby JamesR - Nginx Mailing List - English