[Dovecot] "stable" v. "alpha"

Ben Beuchler insyte at gmail.com
Fri Aug 19 23:10:39 EEST 2005


On 8/19/05, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 11:48 -0500, Ben Beuchler wrote:
> > I apologize for not getting back to you and the list, but I have since
> > discovered that I was encountering a more generalized LDAP problem. I
> > wil reply to my original post with more info.
> 
> Well, Dovecot was still behaving much worse than it should have. All it
> should have done was to log some errors about being unable to connect to
> LDAP server and give login failure replies to clients.

It does fail gracefully if the server is completely unreachable.  You
only see the weird mess of errors I posted when the LDAP server gets
in some as-of-yet unknown weird half-hung state.

-Ben


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