Hi, new user here, trying to track down an issue. Sometimes, after
starting dovecot, I'll attempt to check mail and will not be able to
get a connection to my server. I'll kill dovecot, restart it, and
usually it will begin working. When I first ran into this, I first
tried auth_debug=yes, restarted dovecot, and had no problems. I'd
turn set auth_debug=no, restart dovecot, and would be unable to check
mail. After a time I determined that setting the debug wasn't really
effecting anything, it was just hit or miss if I'd be able to get a
connection. Once I was able to get a connection, things were fine
until dovecot started again.
Nothing unusual in the logs, if it works or not, I'll just see this at
startup:
Mar 25 21:34:48 mail-web-server dovecot[664]: dovecot v1.1.13 starting
up (core dumps disabled)
Mar 25 21:34:48 mail-web-server dovecot[664]: auth-worker(default):
mysql: Connected to localhost (postfix)
If debug is on and connections aren't being accepted, I never see
anything in the logs.
Below is my config. Running on OS X 10.5.6. Any info on
troubleshooting would be appreciated.
mail-web-server:~ wright$ sudo /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -n Password: # 1.1.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Darwin 9.6.0 i386 hfs protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_user: _dovecot login_max_processes_count: 64 max_mail_processes: 128 first_valid_uid: 27 last_valid_uid: 27 first_valid_gid: 27 last_valid_gid: 27 mail_privileged_group: postfix mail_uid: 27 mail_gid: 27 mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 namespace: type: private inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain login cram-md5 passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix