[Dovecot] multiple authentication mechanisms, many problems

[Dan Hollis]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Jani Karlsson wrote:
> http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2005-May/007421.html
> 
> similiar problems with Gentoo on AMD64, 1.0-test72.. cannot 
> create/move/such IMAP folders.
> Error:
> denied resource overstep by requesting 17189568512 for RLIMIT_AS against 
> limit 536870912 for /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap[imap:23732] 
> uid/euid:1156/1156 gid/egid:1156/1156, parent 
> /usr/local/sbin/dovecot[dovecot:13204] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0
> 
> Yet there is no limits, checked that twice.

that message comes from grsecurity. i guess gentoo uses that.

anyway, RLIMIT_AS is the address space limit. dovecot's imap is trying to 
increase the limit from 512mb to 16gb for inexplicable reason.

looks like a bug to me (any legitimate reason imap would ever need 16gb, 
let alone 512mb?)

-Dan