[Dovecot] Dovecot hung or what?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 18:14 +0300, Odhiambo WASHINGTON wrote:
> Here is my first major problem with dovecot. I am running rc15 on 
> FreeBSD 6.1. I run dovecot supervised by DJB's daemontools.
> I run only the pop3 service.
> 
> A colleague informed me that pop3 service was simply not responding.
> They could not rcv mail. When I checked the server, tail-ing 
> dovecot.log, here is what was scrolling:
> 
> [wash at nbi ~]$ tail -f /var/log/dovecot.log
> dovecot: Nov 23 18:04:11 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=196.200.37.94, lip=62.8.64.64
> dovecot: Nov 23 18:04:11 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=196.200.42.212, lip=196.200.36.2

Did you have auth_verbose=yes? It might have shown something more.

Also you could have tried to do telnet localhost pop3 and try to login
manually, and see where it got stuck.

> 1. What could the problem be?

I'm guessing dovecot-auth got stuck. What passdb and userdb do you use?

> 2. How can I reproduce it.

Dunno. :)

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