[Dovecot] imap can't reconnect to auth-master after setuid

[Timo Sirainen]

On 27.10.2010, at 22.25, Mike Abbott wrote:

> With service imap { client_limit = 5, service_count = 0 },

This still isn't all that recommended, since one connection can hang other connections in same process.

> when the auth process crashes

Which of course shouldn't happen :)

> the existing imap processes cannot reconnect to the auth-master socket because they have long ago dropped root privileges.  Is the right solution to this:
> (1) change the perms on the auth-master socket so processes running as vmail:vmail can connect to it, or
> (2) change the code so that multi-client imap processes stop accepting new clients when they notice an auth bounce?

Hmm. I'd prefer (2). I'll see about implementing it next week (I'm traveling this week).