Hi,
Thanks for the prompt reply.
Astonishingly, I came into the clients this morning and the damned thing had not fallen over once.
I suspect the problem may have been imap related. I'll explain.
The machine was an upgrade from what was essentially a pop3 RH9 installation. We installed both the imap and pop features of dovecot in order to continue the email to users (all set up to do pop3 at the moment) and to test the imap features. The reason we left the pop stuff alone is that the mailer they use on their windoze boxen grabs the mail and stores it in it's own mailbox format.
The only thing I did yesterday was to take the lines referencing imap out of the dovecot.conf and restart the service. It's been running like a train ever since.
I can't spare time to investigate this now but will try it again once the "busy" period of the switchover has happened.
Thanks again for the prompt response - hell of a product btw.
Rgds
Nigel.
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 19:13, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 12:32 +1000, Nigel Allen wrote:
Greetings
Running Fedora Core 3 and dovecot-0.99.13-3.FC3 as a production mail server for around 30+ accounts.
A couple of times a day dovecot just stops.
Nothing in the mail log except for
Apr 26 00:48:19 sydsrv05 imap-login: Can't connect to auth process at default: Connection refused
Sounds like Dovecot's master process crashes. Is there a core file in /var/run/dovecot directory? If so, do:
gdb dovecot /var/run/dovecot/core bt
and send the result here.
Or alternatively do:
gdb attach
pidof dovecotcont (wait for it to crash) btNigel Allen, Snr Consultant, ProSmart Consulting Australia 48 Tiarri Avenue, Terrey Hills, NSW 2084, Australia Tel: +61 2 9450 2690 Fax: +61 2 9450 2691 Mob: +61 4 1494 5269 http://www.prosmart.com.au