Dear list,
We moved our dovecot installation to a new vm, and ever since there are problems logging in to our imap server during office hours. ( Evenings and weekends are fine. ) Both the new and the old machine are dovecot 2.2.13. Symptoms: Logging in via imap gives:
. OK Pre-login capabilities listed, post-login capabilities have more. a login <loginname> <passwd>
- OK Waiting for authentication master process to respond.. closed
whereas using the same credentials with pop3:
+OK Dovecot ready. user <loginname> +OK pass <passwd> +OK Logged in.
Our mail.err log gives lots of:
dovecot: imap-login: Error: master(imap): Auth request timed out (received 0/12 bytes) dovecot: imap: Error: Login client disconnected too early dovecot: auth: Error: Master request 24000.918 not found dovecot: master: Error: service(imap): fork() failed: Resource temporarily unavailable dovecot: master: Error: service(imap): command startup failed, throttling for 2 secs
Note thate we our users almost exclusively use imap. Normally we would have some 7 or 800 imap processes running and only a few pop3.
Our doveconf -n output:
# 2.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 4.4.38-93-default x86_64 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (x86_64) auth_mechanisms = plain login default_client_limit = 2000 default_process_limit = 2000 default_vsz_limit = 512 M disable_plaintext_auth = no imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep import_environment = TZ DEBUG_OUTOFMEM DOVECOT_HOSTDOMAIN mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = " quota" managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = *:storage=1G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+10%% sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service anvil { client_limit = 8003 } service auth { client_limit = 10000 unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = dovecot mode = 0666 } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } process_min_avail = 4 service_count = 0 } service imap { process_limit = 2048 } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } process_min_avail = 4 service_count = 0 } service pop3 { process_limit = 2048 } ssl_cert =
Thank you all for any insight, it will be much appreciated! Best regards,
gerard