[Dovecot] Dict spams in my Log-File

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 11:53 +0100, Jan Phillip Greimann wrote:

> i use dovecot 2.0.9 with mysql as backend. I've also configured dict to
> mysql, but after some time dict spams in my log-file, i don't know why.
..
> Mar 16 10:29:35 s16 dovecot: dict: mysql: Connected to localhost
> (mail_backend)
> Mar 16 10:31:35 s16 dovecot: dict: mysql: Connected to localhost
> (mail_backend)
> Mar 16 10:33:35 s16 dovecot: dict: mysql: Connected to localhost
> (mail_backend)

I'd guess it is because dict process gets idle-killed and then after a
while it restarts and has to connect to mysql again. So what you want to
do is:

service dict {
  idle_kill = 1d
}

Or something like that.