[Dovecot] RC8 failing...

[Chris Wakelin]

Timothy Meader wrote:
> I just tried upgrading from RC7 to RC8 this morning, and I'm seeing an
> issue I've never seen before. On my first POP3 login, all is fine, but
> any subsequent logins seem to fail with the message:
> 
> dovecot: Oct 10 11:04:31 Error: Maximum number of mail processes exceeded
> 
> In the dovecot log file.
> 
> I'm also oddly seeing the message:
> 
> Oct 10 11:01:05 popbkup pop3-login: [ID 799321 mail.crit] Dovecot
> version mismatch: Master is v1.0.rc7, login is v1.0.rc8 (if you don't
> care, set version_ignore=yes)
> 
> in the messages file on my system. Don't really understand that one, and
> I've done a complete shutdown of all dovecot or *-login *-auth processes
> prior to the "make install" for RC8.
> 

Sounds like you've still got a rc7 version of sbin/dovecot somehow. Try
running "dovecot --version" to check. As for the other (if it's
unrelated) what do you have for "max_mail_processes"?

Best Wishes,
Chris

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