[Dovecot] dovecot-deliver occasionally fails to deliver, leaving no clues

[Lucas Madar]

On Oct 21, 2008, at 3:08 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 14:47 -0700, Lucas Madar wrote:
>> deliver(x at x): Oct 21 09:51:55 Error: Auth lookup returned failure
>>
>> The auth process is not logging any errors.
>
> See if these two help:
>
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/4608e1bfb505
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/2108e44c3ba4
>

Ok, I've added those. It takes about six hours until one of these  
delivery failures happens.
Meanwhile, I turned on auth_verbose for the main process, and now I  
get these pretty frequently:

dovecot: Oct 21 15:31:58 Panic: auth(default): file auth-worker- 
server.c: line 282 (auth_worker_call): assertion failed: (conn- 
 >requests_left > 0)

(Shouldn't these have been logged without auth_verbose? or is this a  
result of your patches?)

- Lucas