Slow auth would be down to your authentication config or authentication daemon. 
 We run a custom saslauthd at FastMail and it's plenty fast, so that's purely 
down to how Kolab is set up.

I don't know how Kolab works well enough to help here sorry.

Bron.

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015, at 08:04, signaldevelo...@gmail.com wrote:
> Bron,
> 
> So the kolab guys got back to me and said this is done purposely to check 
> against cache. I am CCing the kolab user list and fwith many active users who 
> are watching over this scenario and well as a few friends too. 
> 
> Can you think of any other reasons that this auth process would be slow? 
> Again it's not horribly slow just it's noticeable for those that use 
> roundcube with less of this "check ins" from multiple roundcube plugins 
> during each message select. I suspect that the four plugins mentioned in the 
> bug I reported are checking in with IMAP with each and EVERY message view 
> (just viewing messages without changing folders)
> 
> They're wondering why my installation is so slow. Again, don't think it's the 
> IO, it's running on a pretty high tech environment. 
> 
> Any logs or anything I can provide for further analysis on the Cyrus end of 
> things?
> 
> Thanks again man!
> 
> - Paul
> 
> 
> 
> > On Sep 7, 2015, at 12:26 AM, Bron Gondwana <br...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > 
> > Yeah, so tls to localhost is dumb.  That's security theatre at its 
> > silliest.  Best to turn that off.
> > 
> > Here's some possibilities to make it not required:
> > 
> > imapd.conf:
> > allowplaintext: yes
> > sasl_mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN
> > 
> > There used to be a sasl layer thing we did too... "-p 1" in cyrus.conf for 
> > the imapd line that listens on localhost will tell sasl that you already 
> > have a protection layer.
> > 
> > Bron.
> > 
> > 
> >> On Mon, Sep 7, 2015, at 12:15, signaldevelo...@gmail.com wrote:
> >> Hey Rudy!
> >> 
> >> As far as entropy: Probably not, it's brand new. One user (me.. Testing) 
> >> is playing on it. This is something I've never touched and know very 
> >> little about, can you explain? 
> >> 
> >> And can you explain: Is saslauthd compiled against /dev/urandom?
> >> 
> >> Thanks again guys..
> >> 
> >> - Paul
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >> 
> >>> On Sep 6, 2015, at 9:50 PM, Rudy Gevaert <rudy.geva...@ugent.be> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> Quoting signaldevelo...@gmail.com, Mon, 07 Sep 2015:
> >>> 
> >>>> Hosts file is fine I checked that, thanks. Kolab uses 389 to  
> >>>> authenticate for everything, so Cyrus is using LDAP as you can see  
> >>>> above. I think the problem lies in the constant TLS logins into  
> >>>> Cyrus for every click:
> >>>> 
> >>>> imap[2281]: login: localhost [::1] john...@domain.com PLAIN+TLS User  
> >>>> logged in  
> >>>> SESSIONID=<es1.domain.com-2281-1441500890-1-15740725055571902363>
> >>>> Sep  5 20:54:51 es1 imap[2281]: USAGE john...@domain.com user:  
> >>>> 0.009998 sys: 0.006999
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Again its only one user, on roundcube... I am afraid to put any more  
> >>>> users on it. There doesn't seem to be much of performance tweaks  
> >>>> with Cyrus around the web either...
> >>> 
> >>> does your system have enough entropy?
> >>> 
> >>> Is saslauthd compiled against /dev/urandom?
> >>> 
> >>> Rudy
> >>> 
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