Hi,

I am a system admin and I am evaluating using dovecot as our email server. In 
my test, I found that if I telneted to 993 port and did not do anything or I 
telneted to 143 port, sent starttls command and then did not do anything, the 
connection stayed forever without timeout. This will make our mail server 
vulnerable to DOS attack. I dig into dovecot Wiki and did not find any 
solution. This seems to me that dovecot does not handle SSL/TLS handshake 
timeout. I am wondering if this is a known issue and will be fixed in near 
future.

Thanks,

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