[Dovecot] Inactivity, Thunderbird -> bad password

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 19:30 +0100, Peter Veerman wrote:
> Nov 19 17:32:10 Info: imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity:
> rip=88.211.149.123, lip=62.45.54.4, TLS

So at least the TLS handshake gets finished.

> Nov 19 17:32:13 Info: IMAP(userA at domain): Disconnected in IDLE
> Nov 19 17:32:13 Info: IMAP(userC at domain): Disconnected in IDLE
> Nov 19 17:32:13 Info: IMAP(userB at domain): Disconnected in IDLE
> Nov 19 17:32:13 Info: IMAP(userD at domain): Disconnected in IDLE
> Nov 19 17:32:13 Info: IMAP(userE at domain): Disconnected
> Nov 19 17:32:13 Info: IMAP(userD at domain): Disconnected in IDLE
> Nov 19 17:32:13 Info: IMAP(userF at domain): Disconnected
> Nov 19 17:32:13 Info: IMAP(userF at domain): Disconnected in IDLE
> Nov 19 17:32:13 Info: IMAP(userA at domain): Disconnected in IDLE
> Nov 19 17:32:13 Info: IMAP(userB at domain): Disconnected in IDLE
> 
> But after these problems the next line is also in my logs when after
> these messages another user tries to authenticate:
> Nov 19 17:35:09 Info: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connected to
> localhost (postfix)
> 
> Could it be that the mysql username-password backend times out and takes
> it time to reconnect to mysql and in the meantime an account gets the
> "you have got a wrong password" response?

Maybe.. Set auth_debug=yes and see what happens around the time it logs
inactivity?
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