Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 06:59 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
If I use the socket option I can't use the count option to create more
authentication processes. I get this error. Thanks in advance.
dovecot: Jan 25 06:57:04 Error: auth(default): Socket already exists:
/var/run/dovecot/auth-client
Right. This is kind of a design problem which isn't that easy to fix
(until v2.0). Do you really need more than count=1? I don't think
there's any benefit in having count (much) larger than the number of
CPUs in the system, and a count=1 can handle thousands of
connections/sec on my system.
There is situations when more than one socket is needed: for chrooted
processes.
About year ago I did a lots of tests with different chroot setups
(internal chroot/external chrooting). About 10 bugs in dovecot was
discovered... most of of them are fixed now. [see old post by me; thanks
Timo:))] But final conclusion was - Dovecot currently isn't designed for
use in chroot setups. Also "mail_chroot": setting brings up more
problems than benefits (unable to use external binaries (sendmail) for
bounce messages, plugins don't work as expected etc.).
Uldis
