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Understanding login strings with POP3/IMAP

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The_Exchange_Team
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Apr 01, 2004
Of the various processes for logging into a POP3/IMAP4 service of the Exchange server, the most commonly used is Basic Authentication through an SSL encrypted session.  When choosing this method, e...
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Jul 16, 2004
we have been having performance issues with heavy POP & IMAP users. I am thinking it can be attributed to http://support.microsoft.com/?id=318228

1) is there any way to be 100% sure this is the cause of the issue? (other than closely monitoring every aspect of the server and using process of elimination)

2) do the registry changes in the article take affect immediately, require services restarted, or require a reboot?

Thanks a million - i love the exchange blogs!