On 23.8.2019 17.19, Randy Bush via dovecot wrote:
FreeBSD psg.com 11.3-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE-p3 dovecot 2.3.6 (7eab80676) (latest from binary package system)
symptom: multiple imap4s users complain that they can not fetch mail
stopping and restarting dovecot is a temporary workaround
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clues?
just installing 2.3.7 from source to see if that helps
randy
Do you see anything useful in logs?
Aki