[Dovecot] do not lose mail when dovecot is dead

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 18:53 +0100, Daniel wrote:
> > > deliver(leva): Can't connect to auth server
> > > at /var/run/dovecot/auth-master: Connection refused
> > > postfix/pipe[8582]: 8A1C6F261: to=<leva at domain.hu>, orig_to=<id>,
> > > relay=dovecot-lda, delay=1.7, delays=1.1/0/0/0
> > > .68, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot-lda service)
> > > postfix/qmgr[29441]: 8A1C6F261: removed

I don't know why this would happen though. How are you executing
deliver? I think the problem is with Postfix configuration or at least
outside deliver.

> Maybe my auth-master file remains there, but deliver couldn't connect to 
> it, because dovecot has died. I guess the socket stayed there because 
> dovecot couldn't clean up after itself in this case. Am I wrong (just 
> guessing leastways...)?

I tested that in that situation deliver also returns temporary failure.

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20080112/af75fad4/attachment-0001.bin