[Dovecot] Curious Dovecot strangeness

[S. A. Woltering]

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Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 14:31 +0100, S. A. Woltering wrote:
>> The problems we see are sporadic thunderbird error messages of the kind
>> "cannot save message to Sent folder" and for some users with large-ish
>> numbers of mail folders one or two of their folders are appearing empty.
> 
> Hmm. So .. Do you see anything different in log files around that time?
> For example:
> 
> imap-login: Info: Maximum number of connections from user+IP exceeded
> (mail_max_userip_connections): user=<tss>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1,
> lip=127.0.0.1, secured
> 
> or:
> 
> dovecot: Error: Maximum number of mail processes exceeded (see
> max_mail_processes setting)
> 
> or anything else with "Error:" or "Fatal:" prefix?
> 
>> log_path: /var/adm/dovecot.log
>> info_log_path: /var/adm/dovecot.log
> 
> I'd put these to different files. It's then easy to see if there have
> been any errors, because only errors will be written to log_path.

Good call. I'll try this and get back to you as soon as I see any results.
Thanks,
SAW

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Steven-Ashley Woltering, MBCS, Systems Analyst,
ECMWF, Shinfield Park, Reading, RG2 9AX, UK
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