Patch SERVICE_FIRST_STATUS_TIMEOUT

[Timo Sirainen]

On 16 Mar 2015, at 22:36, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
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>> So we had to apply the attached patch to our Source based Dovecot Cluster.
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>> Could you please make a configurable Parameter for our Patched value?
>> 
>> That would be great to get this parameter Configurable.
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> That's the wrong solution though. A process initialization is supposed to take less than a second always. If something like LDAP initialization is taking minutes, this waiting should be done after the process initialization has finished.
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> I thought the LDAP initialization code was asynchronous though, unless you're using sasl_bind=yes or tls=yes?

http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/0a17875f0ece should help with this. I did a bunch of other cleanup commits also, which are more or less required to avoid invalid errors from rapidly recreating auth processes that just die immediately.