Hello,

Dovecot log is showing too many POP3 RETR entries which are identical lines. I also suspect that it is causing high pop traffic eating most of the network bandwidth. Here are some of the lines out of 11009 in a day. Such pattern is observed only for few users. dovecot version is 2.1.17.

============== Mar 20 00:00:07 pi3 dovecot: pop3(user@example.com): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=1/64014, del=0/1429, size=478762716 Mar 20 00:00:07 pi3 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<user@example.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=43.243.173.97, lip=192.168.1.18, mpid=26645, secured, session=<5CGrmRlLyAAr861h> Mar 20 00:00:10 pi3 dovecot: pop3(user@example.com): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=1/64014, del=0/1429, size=478762716 Mar 20 00:00:11 pi3 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<user@example.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=43.243.173.97, lip=192.168.1.18, mpid=29932, secured, session=<k6/gmRlL3gAr861h> Mar 20 00:00:12 pi3 dovecot: pop3(user@example.com): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=1/64014, del=0/1429, size=478762716 Mar 20 00:00:13 pi3 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<user@example.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=43.243.173.97, lip=192.168.1.18, mpid=26819, secured, session=<3DX6mRlLUQAr861h> Mar 20 00:00:14 pi3 dovecot: pop3(user@example.com): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=1/64014, del=0/1429, size=478762716 Mar 20 00:00:15 pi3 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<user@example.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=43.243.173.97, lip=192.168.1.18, mpid=9636, secured, session=<x5ghmhlLjwAr861h> Mar 20 00:00:16 pi3 dovecot: pop3(user@example.com): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=1/64014, del=0/1429, size=478762716 Mar 20 00:00:17 pi3 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<user@example.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=43.243.173.97, lip=192.168.1.18, mpid=4585, secured, session=<8Yw+mhlL0AAr861h> Mar 20 00:00:18 pi3 dovecot: pop3(user@example.com): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=1/64014, del=0/1429, size=478762716 Mar 20 00:00:18 pi3 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<user@example.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=43.243.173.97, lip=192.168.1.18, mpid=30049, secured, session=<UsJOmhlLmAAr861h> Mar 20 00:00:19 pi3 dovecot: pop3(user@example.com): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=1/64014, del=0/1429, size=478762716 Mar 20 00:00:20 pi3 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<user@example.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=43.243.173.97, lip=192.168.1.18, mpid=9636, secured, session=<B6VimhlLNgAr861h> Mar 20 00:00:20 pi3 dovecot: pop3(user@example.com): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=1/64014, del=0/1429, size=478762716 Mar 20 00:00:20 pi3 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<user@example.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=43.243.173.97, lip=192.168.1.18, mpid=4584, secured, session=<pVpxmhlLPwAr861h> Mar 20 00:00:21 pi3 dovecot: pop3(user@example.com): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=1/64014, del=0/1429, size=478762716 Mar 20 00:00:23 pi3 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<user@example.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=43.243.173.97, lip=192.168.1.18, mpid=4585, secured, session=<MlGam

What could be the possible reason?

Thanks, Bappasaheb