[Dovecot] 2.0.3 Bug - hanging issue

[Timo Sirainen]

On 25.10.2010, at 14.13, Alan Brown wrote:

> Oct 25 12:36:34 msslat dovecot: imap(keh2): Error: user keh2: Initialization failed: Namespace '#mbox/': mkdir(/stage/mail/imap1/keh2/mail) failed: Permission denied (euid=2291(keh2) egid=101(luci) missing +w perm: /stage/mail/imap1, euid is not dir owner)
> 
> Because the parent directory was rwxr-xr-x root.root

Right..

> The problem is that for some reason dovecot then wedged and a lot of other stuff piled up behind it, causing people to complain their mail wasn't coming through. Load average climbed to over 100.
> 
> Creating the user directories freed things up...

So the problem is that if there's a misconfiguration, load goes up? I don't really know if there's much to do about this. I guess it could wait a second or so before disconnecting client to avoid it reconnecting back too fast..