[Dovecot] "Waiting for authentication process to respond" for invalid users with auth_dovecot

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 13:53 +0300, Ibrahim Harrani wrote:

> I am testing dovecot 2.0.13 and 2.0.14 with qmail-ldap and
> auth_dovecot patch. If i login to dovecot (pop3/imap) with correct
> user and password.
> no problem, I can login immediately. but if I try with nonexistant
> user, dovecot does not immediate answer, wait for a while and says
> "Waiting for authentication process to respond."
> auth_dovecot process remains working in the background.
> How can I avoid this situation?

If auth_dovecot process keeps running, the bug is in auth_dovecot. I've
never looked at it (or probably even heard of it).