[Dovecot] pop/imap session

[Ed W]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> Ok, but there are errors that are not logged(i assume that debug mode 
>> is disabled)
>> Lets take, for example a bug when dovecot freezes and telneting 
>> directly to
>> the port shows: Waiting for authentication process to respond...
>>
>> This could be reported to admin by mail and is faster than reading logs.
>
> Shouldn't you rather figure out why it's freezing and fix that? It's 
> not normal.
>

But if you worry about that kind of thing then monit is a good tool.  It 
can be configured to watch memory usage, number of processes, check a 
port, then take action and do something like alert an admin and reboot 
the service, etc

Ed W