[Dovecot] Would attempting plaintext auth repeatably cause a DOS and server to crash?

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Fri, 21 Jun 2013, Hugh Davenport wrote:

> and a minute later the server lost contact to the world. When I checked a bit 
> later,
> the underlying host machine (dovecot runs on a VM (KVM)) had been powered 
> off.

I cannot believe that a DoS of a guest VM causes the host machine to power 
off.

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Steffen Kaiser
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