[Dovecot] Excessive imap-logins, never die

[Timo Sirainen]

On 16.11.2011, at 0.48, Nick Edwards wrote:

> Today I note there are 38 imap-logins  that seem to be stale on our staff
> imap server,
> they do not seem to die off, new imap-logins are created with new logins
> and exit accordingly.
..
> Dovecot version 1.2.17, built from source

All this code has been rewritten in v2.0 and there's not much point in spending time on figuring out why things aren't working perfectly in v1.x. But you could most likely avoid this problem by switching to "high-performance mode": http://wiki.dovecot.org/LoginProcess