[Dovecot] connection refused

Timo Sirainen
Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:30:09 -0000

On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 11:12 -0500, Steven F Siirila
wrote:
> Mar 18 02:50:14 myhost.mydomain dovecot: pop3-login: Can't connect to
auth server at default: Connection refused
..
> I presume that the changes Timo made in response to my previous inquiry
> about refused connections at reboot will fix these.  My question is: what
> do clients see when this situation arises?  Is it transparent, or does the
> client/user end up having to re-connect?

I think the connection just hangs until it has succeeded connecting.
Giving any command then sends to client:

* OK Waiting for authentication process to respond..

At least that's what it does when auth process is hanging.

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