Hi,

today I upgraded one of our dovecot servers from 2.117 to version 2.2.12 under Debian Squeeze. After the upgrade I got many of the following errors for pop3 users.

My logfile shows:

... Apr 14 09:28:05 mailstore dovecot: pop3(user@domain.net pid:39688 session:): Panic: Trying to allocate 0 bytes Apr 14 09:28:05 mailstore dovecot: pop3(user@domain.net pid:39688 session:): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x6bb0a) [0x7f1ae9a18b0a] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot. so.0(+0x6bb86) [0x7f1ae9a18b86] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_error+0) [0x7f1ae99d1e8f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x8148b) [0x7f1ae9a2e48b] -> dovecot/pop3() [0x4077f0] -> dovecot/pop3(client_command_execute+0x9d) [0x4 07d0d] -> dovecot/pop3(client_handle_input+0x80) [0x405810] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x4e) [0x7f1ae9a28d2e] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run_internal+0xaf) [0x7f1ae9a29e9f] -> /usr/lib/do vecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x9) [0x7f1ae9a28db9] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x38) [0x7f1ae9a28e38] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f1ae99d6c43] -> dovecot/pop3(main+0x2 57) [0x404a67] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7f1ae9669c8d] -> dovecot/pop3() [0x4045b9] Apr 14 09:28:05 mailstore dovecot: pop3(user@domain.net pid:39688 session:): Fatal: master: service(pop3): child 39688 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled)

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Have you any idea what the error could be? As this is a production server I switched back to version 2.1.17.

Many thanks Urban Loesch

doveconf -n: # 2.2.12 (978871ca81e7): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.4.67-vs2.3.3.9-rol-em64t-efigpt x86_64 Debian 6.0.9 ext4 auth_cache_negative_ttl = 0 auth_cache_size = 40 M auth_cache_ttl = 1 weeks auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$ %p %w disable_plaintext_auth = no login_trusted_networks = $INTERNAL_IPS mail_gid = mailstore mail_location = mdbox:/home/vmail/%d/%n:INDEX=/home/dovecotindex/%d/%n mail_log_prefix = "%s(%u pid:%p session:<%{session}>): " mail_plugins = " quota mail_log notify zlib" mail_uid = mailstore 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 imapflags notify mdbox_rotate_size = 10 M namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Items" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / type = private } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-account.conf driver = sql } plugin { mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size from mail_log_group_events = no quota = dict:Storage used::file:%h/dovecot-quota quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+100M quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_extensions = +notify +imapflags sieve_max_redirects = 10 zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 9 } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = mailstore mode = 0660 user = root } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } process_limit = 256 process_min_avail = 25 service_count = 1 } service imap { process_limit = 256 process_min_avail = 25 service_count = 1 } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = * port = 24 } unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } process_limit = 256 process_min_avail = 25 service_count = 1 } service pop3 { process_limit = 256 process_min_avail = 25 service_count = 1 } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/rol/dovecot/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { user = mailstore } user = mailstore } ssl = no ssl_cert = mail_max_userip_connections = 40 mail_plugins = " quota mail_log notify zlib imap_quota imap_zlib" } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = " quota mail_log notify zlib" pop3_logout_format = bytes_sent=%o top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s uidl_hash=%u session=<%{session}> pop3_reuse_xuidl = yes }