dovecot sasl support

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at puchar.net
Sun Mar 24 17:35:33 EET 2019


> Why authenticating over imap takes so slow?
>
> my saslauthd runs like that
>
> /usr/local/sbin/saslauthd -a rimap -O 127.0.0.1 -n 0 -r
>
> imap server is handled by dovecot of course.
>
> to be sure it's not sendmail i've tried testsaslauthd
>
> testsaslauthd -u wojtek at puchar.net  -p mypassword
>
> works but takes 5-10 seconds. server is lightly loaded.
>
> telnet 127.0.0.1 imap responds instantly.
>
> what to check?
>
>
seems like saslauthd problem, tried telnetting to imap server and entering 
login command by hand - works instantly


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