Hi guys and girls,
I am having a problem with Dovecot.
It seems like it's the dovecot auth daemon that is locking up(I'm guessing)
I am running SuSe 9.3 Pro, and Dovecot 0.99.14
Everything works perfectly for a few days, and then eventually I end up with tons of what look to be "stale" processes.(I'm guessing roughly 300 like below.)
4204 ? S 0:00 dovecot-auth 24722 ? S 0:00 pop3-login 24723 ? S 0:00 pop3-login 24724 ? S 0:00 dovecot-auth 24921 ? S 0:00 dovecot-auth
When I "telnet 127.0.0.1 110" I get a login, and I can type "User blabla" I get an "OK" then I type in "pass blabla" and then I don't get any response, and I have to kill my session with "Ctrl ]" and then "quit".
I am using both POP3 and IMAP, but it seems to be only the POP3 daemon that dies.
There are roughly 60 users on the network, and it dies after roughly 5 days of usage, and I then have to restart Dovecot by running /etc/init.d/dovecot stop and then start
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Neil Wilson