Hi.

I've installed dovecot recently in a Fedora 5 Linux. It seemed to be OK but I begun to get the message "Can't connect to auth server at default: Resource temporarily unavailable". When I get the message, dovecot hangs.

The problem is that "temporarily" is not quite true since the only way to get dovecot running again is to restart it. As a matter of fact, I cannot say that it never recovers. What I know is that it is out for a long, long time.

Then a new problem arose: the time between hang-ups begun to diminish. Trying to find why I discovered that the number or dovecot-auth processes was too high (last time I got 169 processes, a lot of them <defuncts>). It seems that, if I kill all these processes, it takes more time before it hangs again.

I looked up for messages in the Internet and I found a mail exchange between people from this list. The first hint I got was to upgrade dovecot.

As I said, I'm using Fedora 5 and the version distributed with it was dovecot-1.0-0.beta2.7.i386. I upgraded it to dovecot-1.0-0.beta8.2.fc5.i386. I couldn't make any direct relantionship between this versions and the ones in dovecot site so I cannot tell what dovecot version I'm using in terms of dovecot site versioning.

Any help is welcome.

Thanks,

Ricardo