On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 14:36 -0400, Alan Ferrency wrote:
On this particular server we have exactly 2 different users who log in via POP, and they seem to be set up to log in automatically once every 10 minutes.
imap-login process count is reasonable: there are 11 processes running and it doesn't seem to increase. pop3-login is the issue.
I notice in the logs, that the number of imap-login Login: lines matches the number of Disconnect: lines in the log. For pop3-login, there are 111 Login: lines and only 8 Disconnect: lines. However, there are no pop3 processes currently running, as far as I can tell.
Find out what the other reasons for disconnects are. The possibilities are:
It crashed. Can you find any errors/fatals/panics?
Client was disconnected by Dovecot: "Couldn't open INBOX", "Mailbox init failed", "Input line too long", "Server shutting down".