[Dovecot] POP3 Error

Jeff Grossman jeff at stikman.com
Tue Mar 10 04:12:09 EET 2009


I just looked over my logs and noticed the following error:

Mar  9 19:07:34 apple dovecot: Panic: POP3(april): Trying to allocate 0 
bytes
Mar  9 19:07:34 apple dovecot: POP3(april): Raw backtrace: pop3 
[0x492952] -> pop3 [0x4929d3] -> pop3 [0x4920e6] -> pop3 [0x49cb8d] -> 
pop3(client_create+0x452)
  [0x41aef2] -> pop3(main+0x393) [0x41c9e3] -> 
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x7f6bb46e11a6] -> pop3 [0x41a1b9]
Mar  9 19:07:34 apple dovecot: child 9616 (pop3) killed with signal 6

Here is my dovecot -n:

# 1.2.beta1: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 x86_64 Debian squeeze/sid
base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/
protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s
ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/stikman-godaddy.crt
ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/stikman-godaddy.key
ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login
login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir
mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3
auth default:
   mechanisms: plain login
   passdb:
     driver: pam
   userdb:
     driver: passwd
plugin:
   sieve: sieve


What other information would you need from me?

Jeff


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