[Dovecot] Config questionsabout various login parms

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 16:56 +0000, Mike Brudenell wrote:
> On 7 Mar 2007, at 16:21, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 
> > If you're not using SSL then after user has logged in, the login  
> > process
> > knows nothing about the user anymore and it's free to serve another
> > user.
> 
> And if you are using SSL?  (Which, I'm sure, Stewart will get to in  
> time)...

http://wiki.dovecot.org/LoginProcess

> Is that right?  ... If so, then this was where the "Too many open  
> files" problem arose in an earlier thread (the stdio library on  
> Solaris defaulting to only allow 256 descriptors, or something).

I don't remember anymore what that problem was about. Dovecot itself
doesn't use stdio, so it was some library doing it internally. Was it
passwd lookup doing that? In that case blocking=yes would help nowadays.

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