Hi,

I have an Ubuntu 16.04 server with dovecot 2.2.22 configured as an imap server with an LDAP backend for authentication. This is the output of "dovecot -n": # 2.2.22 (fe789d2): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.13 (7b14904) # OS: Linux 4.4.0-77-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS auth_debug_passwords = yes mail_gid = vmail mail_location = maildir:~/ mail_privileged_group = mail mail_uid = vmail namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } protocols = imap lmtp service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0666 } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } } ssl_cert =

The problem i'm having is that when i try to login it takes more than 10 seconds, making my webmail very slow. For testing i login to imap like this "openssl s_client -connect localhost:993" and sometimes i get this message "* OK Waiting for authentication master process to respond..". I saw at other people, one of the problem was because they didn't disabled pam authentication when using another backend (like ldap or sql), but i already did that.

Does anyone know what could cause such long login times and how to fix it?