[Dovecot] Re: Rogue child imap processes when using Mac imap clients

[Andreas Fuchs]

On 2003-12-08, darren david <darren at 3x3x3.org> wrote:
> but Mac
> clients (Thunderbird, Mozilla, Mail.app) all exhibit the same
> behavior - they can check and send mail, but I end up with a single,
> rogue child imap process on the server that pins the cpu that i have
> to 'kill -9' to clear out.

A friend of mine who runs dovecot 0.99.10.2 on freebsd/alpha (from
ports, thus the low version number) just reported this same symptom to
me. Apparently, dovecot runs fine for a few days, and then an imap
process hogs 100% cpu and has to be killed I'll see if I can get a
ktrace from it.

> Is this a Mac problem or a Dovecot problem? I'm not even sure what
> to look for in the logs...

Remarkably, he too is using a Mac OSX client - mulberry, though.

We'll see soon enough, I think.

Good luck hunting the bug,
-- 
Andreas Fuchs, <asf at boinkor.net>, asf at jabber.at, antifuchs