[Dovecot] Outlook 2000/2003 frequent disconnect issue

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 11:01 -0700, Jeff Ramsey wrote:
> > No, that setting doesn't do anything for IMAP. Also none of those
> > settings affect the "unknown user" error, so maybe 0.99 is somehow  
> > lucky
> > in not generating those. Perhaps setting blocking=yes to userdb passwd
> > args would help.
> >
> 
> Perhaps dovecot communicates with PAM in a different way from 0.99 to  
> 1.0.2? I don't know how else to explain it. Literally, the only time  
> I've gotten a report of Outlook's 'IMAP server disconnected' message  
> since the downgrade is when a user who was on a remote VPN connection  
> left Outlook open and let his computer go into hibernation for like  
> an hour. I'd expect dovecot to close that connection in that instance.

So you're using PAM + nss_ldap. I guess that can easily be the problem.
http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/Passwd

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