--On Wednesday, October 24, 2007 2:15 PM -0700 Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote: > Are you using any auth services in dovecot that are starting after it > does like sasl or ldap? > Or maybe a database connection? Ah, good possibility. Dovecot starts at priority 65, while saslauthd starts at 95. Shouldn't this only be a problem once someone attempts a login? Perhaps it's a Dovecot bug.