On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 10:45 +0100, Rolf E. Sonneveld wrote: > Dec 24 07:20:00 hostname dovecot: auth(default): LDAP: ldap_result() > failed: Can't contact LDAP server .. > I've looked through the archives and it seems that this problem is > caused by the fact that Dovecot (using the OpenLDAP client libraries?) > keeps the LDAP connection open; after (in our case) 15 minutes Active > Directory closes the connection and Dovecot signals this in the syslog > (and presumably automatically will create a new connection to AD). > > I'm pretty sure that the OpenLDAP client libraries provide options to > use a client-side timeout for LDAP connections. My questions are: > > * is there a reason that Dovecot wants to keep the LDAP connection open?
If there are no timeouts, there's not much point in wasting time and reconnecting for no reason. > * Will the new V1.1 version have a config parameter to set the LDAP > client timeout or a default timeout value to close the connection? No. > * If there's no 'fix' foreseen for V1.1, I'd like to file a request > to add such a parameter. How can I file such a request? How about this: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot/rev/ae0556fb268d
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