On 03/11/2016 03:30 PM, Gordon Grubert wrote: > Of course, such a WORKAROUND could be used and I'm sure that this > works. But Timo says, dovecot is using the LDAP API. The openldap > client can handle network timeouts. Therefore, dovecot has to be able > to use these timeouts, too, like described in ldap.conf(5). Sure sure, absolutely agreed.