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

[Ibrahim Harrani]

Hi Timo,

I switched to auth_pop wrapper to solve the problem.
I agree that there is something wrong with auth_dovecot.

Thanks.

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> 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).
>
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