There are two rather clear issues with the state of authentication
failure delays. First, the delay length isn't what was (presumably)
intended. Second, there is a new way of doing failure delays in Dovecot
2 which was added *in addition to* the old method, rather than replacing
it. As a result del
I have a set of automated tests for a system that can authenticate a
user by forwarding authentication details to a server. That is, in order
to authenticate a user, this system logs on to, e.g., an IMAP server
using the credentials supplied by the user to verify the correctness of
those credential