Hi,
dovecot 1.0 rc6
Can someone please advise on my interpretation of the following logs, Users are reporting duplicate email coming through to their inbox. (user@domain replaced actual username and domain) There are also reports of the connection seemingly freezing whilst the emails are being downloaded (pausing at a certain amount of kB then continuing after a minute or 2).
info: pop3-login: Login: user=<user@domain>, method=PLAIN, rip=89.192.*.**, lip=172.16.22.10, TLS info: POP3(user@domain): Disconnected top=0/0, retr=4/183443, del=0/313, size=83779942 info: pop3-login: Login: user=<user@domain>, method=PLAIN, rip=89.192.*.**, lip=172.16.22.10, TLS info: POP3(user@domain): Disconnected top=0/0, retr=3/183443, del=0/322, size=84201570
In the first instance the user downloaded 4 emails totalling 183443 bytes leaving 313 messages on the server. (outlook 2003 set to leave a copy of messages on the server)
second instance user downloaded 3 emails, exactly the same amount of bytes and left 322 messages on the server.
Does this mean the users connection was interrupted when downloading the original emails and they attempted to be sent again a second time? how could it be that there are 9 emails left on the server if only 3 extra were downloaded?
Any help on this would be much appreciated.
Thanks, Mark
Hi there
info: pop3-login: Login: user=<user@domain>, method=PLAIN, rip=89.192.*.**, lip=172.16.22.10, TLS
I can't help with your query - sorry - but seeing it reminded me... I want my Dovecot logs to be that verbose (.99.11) but all I'm getting in my maillog is the login info and that's all.
Is there a setting I can add to the file to get the additional info as above?
Regards Chris
You could try changing info_log_path = /path/to/logfile or if you already have that on comment it out so it logs to /var/log/syslog
I log to a seperate log file with the log_path = but this is only instead of logging to syslog.
My assumption is that these logging features have been added into the new versions. You may like to read some changelogs or upgrade.
Regards, Mark
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 03:34:28PM +0100, Chris Kenward wrote:
Sorry a late reply, reading older mailing list mails only now..
On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 12:20 +0100, Mark Adams wrote:
In rc6 the SSL hangs were supposed to be fixed, so I can't really think of why these freezes would happen..
I changed those log messages recently (I think after rc7 release) to show disconnections and proper logouts separately. There you'd see which one happened.
I guess the above means that in first case the client started downloading 4th message before the connection died. In the second case the client downloaded the 3 messages but connection died before it could continue.
I think the retr bytes normally show only complete messages' bytes because the kernel reads it completely and buffers it internally before sending.
So yea, your problem is that the connections die too early. Did you yet figure out what caused them?
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Chris Kenward
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Mark Adams
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Timo Sirainen