On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 19:08 -0400, Matt Juszczak wrote:

Our dovecot process died out of no where today, with no sign of reasons why.

I'm running a beta from a few weeks ago of 1.0 ... are there any security vulns I should know about that might have caused this crash (someone trying something?)

Do you mean the dovecot master process died completely? If there are nothing in log files, I guess it crashed. It should have written a core file though, and getting a gdb backtrace using it would help figuring out the problem.

Or it might be just that someone killed it for some reason? For example out-of-memory killer or whatever..

I don't know of any bugs in dovecot master code though. It handles very little user input so I doubt there's a way for normal users to crash it. More likely it was caused by some system state.