[Dovecot] auth_cache_...

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Frank Elsner <Frank.Elsner at TU-Berlin.DE>:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> the dovecot-example.conf states:
> 
> # Authentication cache size in kilobytes. 0 means it's disabled.
> # Note that bsdauth, PAM and vpopmail require cache_key to be set for caching
> # to be used.
> #auth_cache_size = 0
> # Time to live in seconds for cached data. After this many seconds the cached
> # record is no longer used, *except* if the main database lookup returns
> # internal failure. We also try to handle password changes automatically: If
> # user's previous authentication was successful, but this one wasn't, the
> # cache isn't used. For now this works only with plaintext authentication.
> #auth_cache_ttl = 3600
> 
> auth_cache_size = 0, does it mean "cache can grow ad infinitum" 
>                      or does it mean "no cache at all" ?

And another question: Are there ways to find out how efficient the
cache is?

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