[Dovecot] multiple connections per imap/pop3 process in 2.0

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Nov 12 05:35:49 EET 2009


On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 19:18 -0600, Mike Abbott wrote:
> Nov 11 16:54:31 server dovecot[5432]: imap(pid 5573 user user2): Fatal: setgid(2002) failed with euid=2001(user1), gid=2001, egid=2001: Operation not permitted
> Then both users are logged out.
> 
> Is there another setting I have to change to enable multiple connections per imap/pop3 process in dovecot-2.0, or does it just not work yet?  I tried changing client_limit=5 but that had no effect.  (I suggest that master.conf needs more documentation.)  Thanks.

It currently requires that all users have the same uid and gid. If you
want the same process to handle multiple uids/gids, you pretty much have
to run it as root that just temporarily drops privileges and that seems
a bit dangerous to me.

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