Hello,
I'm a fresh dovecot user (resp. admin), using dovecot 0.99.14 (a little old, but that's what Debian Sarge provides). In general everything works as it should, but there's something that makes me wonder.
The wiki says "By default each login process will handle only a single connection and afterwards kill itself." But it does look different to me.
On startup there are two imap-login processes running (login_processes_count is 2). When connecting with Sylpheed, one additional imap process is running.
But when connecting with Mozilla (Seamonkey), I get three imap-login and one imap process at minimum (Maximum number of server connections to cache set to 1 in Mozilla). If the cached connections is set to 2, there are four imap-login and two imap processes.
So it looks to me as the login processes don't get killed. Is this a client issue (but how could it keep the login alive?), is this a known bug in the older dovecot, or something unknown?
BTW, login_process_per_connection is default.
Regards, Jürgen