SASL:Connect to private/auth failed: Connection refused -- throttling

2013-08-08 Thread V.Dimitrov
Hi List. Is there a way to ensure that submission listener will not accept connections when dovecot is not running? If not, is it possible to be implemented like for example smtp/submission inet n - - - - smtpd -o smtpd_sasl_security_options = strict_sasl_path The

Re: SASL:Connect to private/auth failed: Connection refused -- throttling

2013-08-08 Thread Wietse Venema
v.dimit...@synergetic.ag: Hi List. Is there a way to ensure that submission listener will not accept connections when dovecot is not running? No. There are alomst a bazilln possible errors that Postfix may run into, and there is no feature to detect them before handling an SMTP connection.

Re: SASL:Connect to private/auth failed: Connection refused -- throttling

2013-08-08 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 08/08/2013 05:10 PM, v.dimit...@synergetic.ag wrote: Hi List. Is there a way to ensure that submission listener will not accept connections when dovecot is not running? Dovecot is pretty much as stable as postfix itself. The real question, therefore, is: why is dovecot not running ?