[Dovecot] memory allocation issues

[Timo Sirainen]

On 27.11.2012, at 8.39, Timo Sirainen wrote:

>> userdb {
>> driver = passwd
>> }
> 
> Both of these lookups should be done by auth-worker processes. So why is it the auth process that complains?

Because of a bug in v2.0.16+ :(

http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/8e5d9d88e250

As a workaround you can use for existing versions:

userdb {
  driver = passwd
  args = blocking=yes
}