[Dovecot] LDAP authentication stops working...

[J. David Rye of Roadtech]

>
>> I get this problem as well, with dovecot running on a server running
>> Fedora5
>> I first noticed this problem after a yum update that moved the server
>> upto
>> the rpm dovecot-1.0.0.beta8.3.fc5.i386
>> The server original ran OK after it was originaly upgraded to Fedora5,
>> which
>> shiped with the rpm dovecot-1.0.0.beta2.7.i386
>>
>> The LDAP server is openldap-2.0.27-8 running redhat 9.0
>>
>> The minimum to fix the problem seems to be kill the dovecot auth
>> processes.
>
> Well, since all of these versions are extremely outdated, the first
> thing to do is update dovecot - latest is rc17.
>
> --
>
> Best regards,
>
> Charles
>
> *RT IMSS Scanned*
>
Usualy I would be minded to agree, but this problem seems to be affecting
versions between rc8 and rc17

Adrian Hall reported problem with rc17
J.M. Maurer with rc15
Me with the current Fedora 5 RPM beta 8

In this case I suspect it may be easier to work backwards until the
problem goes away then see what was changed to cause the problem than try
and debug an intermittent problem in the current code.



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