[sandGorgon]

I'm using Redmine in a similar setup. Have you seen any performance impact of rake tasks to pull imap mails ? I'm a little wary of the rake task loading the entire ruby (in my case Rails) environment, everytime it starts up.

any thoughts ?

[atechie]

It depends upon the hardware you have. But if you have a decent machine say EC2 small instances or something like http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_vserver/vq19 it should not be an issue. We use similar setup for promptcloud and that machine has numerous other things running too, there is no noticeable load.

[AlexBlom]

For my use case it's fine. If the software was going to be commercial, this module would be the first to need beefing. I've toyed with re-running delayed jobs, but this setup has worked for me (Micro EC2 instance).

[silasb]

There is an impact, we have a Rack task that handles mail via STDIN and it takes quite a long time (5 seconds) to startup and process.