Daniel wrote:

Hi

Dose dovecot have problem working on a eth0:1 alias type interfaces? I just wondering if this could be my problem?

Dovecot would do the authentication correctly and send small email but as soon as any load was put on it like downloading a mail with a large attachment it would fail. All network traffic would stop. No errors in the logs. As soon as I move the service to listen on a non alias interface eth0 all works fine. Very strange. I have taken a good look at our server to check that is not anything. I'm pretty sure we are good. I have also rebooted the box to see if that would fixed it which it didn't.

I have had Dovecot running on an alias port (under Solaris) since day 1. Runs fine, even with the large e-mails some people feel are neccessary. I'm using 0.99.11 ...

Which OS and Dovecot version are you using?

Regards Daniel

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