[Dovecot] [Fwd: Dovecot disconnecting users at login for inactivity]

[Timo Sirainen]

On 11.10.2004, at 04:14, Chris Liljenstolpe wrote:

>    I am running 0.99.11 on FreeBSD 5.2.1 with both POP and IMAP 
> enabled.  Both POP and IMAP only allow authentication once SSL or TLS 
> is enabled.  Some IMAP and POP clients are suffering transient or 
> permanent failures (I have not figured out the combination that is 
> having the permanent failures), but all clients seem to fail every now 
> and then.  When all clients are having transient failures, a restart 
> of the server seems to work.   That does not solve the problems for 
> the clients that always fail, however.  The failures are an 
> unresponsive server, and the following in the logs on the server:
>
>
> Oct  9 23:12:29 odin imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity 
> [199.45.11.20]

Pretty difficult to guess what the problem is from that. I'd suggest 
trying 1.0-test47 with auth_verbose = yes. It logs then any problem 
that client had while logging in.

Hmm. Unless the problem is somehow SSL related and it's using 
/dev/random which has run out of entropy? Just a guess.
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