Dovecot version 2.1.7 Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Kernel 3.2.0-35-generic x86_64
I'm not sure exactly when this started occurring, but sporatically users report issues receiving email, having email saved to "Sent," etc. Looking in dovecot.log, I see the following errors:
2013-10-16 09:53:20 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<user1>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=27434, secured, session=<PnoiBtzoBgB/AAAB> 2013-10-16 09:53:20 imap(user1): Info: Disconnected: Logged out in=93 out=846 2013-10-16 09:53:21 imap(user2): Info: Disconnected: Logged out in=3616 out=495 2013-10-16 09:53:24 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<user3>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=27436, secured, session=<jE5kBtzoBwB/AAAB> 2013-10-16 09:53:24 imap(user3): Info: Disconnected: Logged out in=93 out=819 2013-10-16 09:53:33 imap(user4): Error: fstat() failed with file /srv/mail/user4/dovecot.index.log: No such file or directory 2013-10-16 09:53:33 imap(user4): Error: fstat() failed with file /srv/mail/user4/dovecot.index.log: No such file or directory 2013-10-16 09:53:33 imap(user4): Error: fstat() failed with file /srv/mail/user4/dovecot.index.log: No such file or directory 2013-10-16 09:53:33 imap(user4): Error: fstat() failed with file /srv/mail/user4/dovecot.index.log: No such file or directory 2013-10-16 09:53:33 imap(user4): Error: fstat() failed with file /srv/mail/user4/dovecot.index.log: No such file or directory 2013-10-16 09:53:33 imap(user4): Error: fstat() failed with file /srv/mail/user4/dovecot.index.log: No such file or directory 2013-10-16 09:53:41 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<user3>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=27438, secured, session=<UDJlB9zoCAB/AAAB> 2013-10-16 09:53:41 imap(user3): Info: Disconnected: Logged out in=93 out=819 2013-10-16 09:54:12 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<user1>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=27440, secured, session=<6bI5CdzoCQB/AAAB> 2013-10-16 09:54:12 imap(user1): Info: Disconnected: Logged out in=93 out=846 2013-10-16 09:54:12 imap(user5): Info: Disconnected: Logged out in=736 out=7064 2013-10-16 09:54:15 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<user6>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=27442, secured, session=<t+FnCdzoCgB/AAAB> 2013-10-16 09:54:15 imap(user6): Info: Disconnected: Logged out in=95 out=902 2013-10-16 09:54:20 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<user1>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=27444, secured, session=<c/q1CdzoCwB/AAAB> 2013-10-16 09:54:20 imap(user1): Info: Disconnected: Logged out in=93 out=846 2013-10-16 09:54:24 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<user3>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=27446, secured, session=<nOb3CdzoDAB/AAAB> 2013-10-16 09:54:24 imap(user3): Info: Disconnected: Logged out in=93 out=819
These errors are not confined to a single user, and do not occur with the same frequency.
I originally was running the Dovecot shipped with the default Ubuntu repositories (don't remember which version, but it was 1.*) and used a backport to upgrade to 2.1.7 to see if that fixed it. It did not.
Any ideas why this is happening?