[Dovecot] Getting Error 24 device timeout

[Timo Sirainen]

OK, sounds like you're using an ancient Dovecot v0.99. That may be the
reason why you're experiencing timeouts. Upgrading to at least v1.0.0
would probably solve your problem.

On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 13:33 -0400, Jones, Keven wrote:
> I have turned on debugging per your recommendation. However
> My version of dovecot (how do I tell what version?) only 
> Has auth_debug=yes (mail_debug=yes is not in my conf file).
> 
> Also /usr/sbin/dovecot -n comes back with unknown arugment: -n
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss at iki.fi] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 1:22 PM
> To: Jones, Keven
> Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Getting Error 24 device timeout
> 
> 1) Show your dovecot -n output
> 
> 2) Show Dovecot's logs around the time when the timeout happens.
> 
> Otherwise it's just guessing.
> 
> On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 13:16 -0400, Jones, Keven wrote:
> > Hi Timo,
> > 
> > This is a linux server running sendmail. Dovecot does work on this 
> > machine. But sometimes We get that error. I stop sendmail, stop 
> > dovecot, remove a few logs from the bounceback Account and it works 
> > again for a while. I'm just getting this error on the bounceback 
> > Account. I think it is happening when the account get too big or has too many records. I Was thinking I need to adjust some timeout value or something??
> > 
> > Thx for your help. I'm a little lost on this one. 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss at iki.fi]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 12:30 PM
> > To: Jones, Keven
> > Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Getting Error 24 device timeout
> > 
> > On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 11:49 -0400, Jones, Keven wrote:
> > > Does anyone know what causes this error and how to fix this
> > 
> > What IMAP client/device is this? Does Dovecot work elsewhere?
> > 
> > Set auth_debug=yes and mail_debug=yes and look at what the logs show 
> > when logging in. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging
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