[Dovecot] dovecot stopping - no messages

[Nigel Allen]

Hi,

Thanks for the prompt reply.

Astonishingly, I came into the clients this morning and the damned thing
had not fallen over once.

I suspect the problem may have been imap related. I'll explain.

The machine was an upgrade from what was essentially a pop3 RH9
installation. We installed both the imap and pop features of dovecot in
order to continue the email to users (all set up to do pop3 at the
moment) and to test the imap features. The reason we left the pop stuff
alone is that the mailer they use on their windoze boxen grabs the mail
and stores it in it's own mailbox format.

The only thing I did yesterday was to take the lines referencing imap
out of the dovecot.conf and restart the service. It's been running like
a train ever since.

I can't spare time to investigate this now but will try it again once
the "busy" period of the switchover has happened.

Thanks again for the prompt response - hell of a product btw.

Rgds

Nigel.


On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 19:13, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 12:32 +1000, Nigel Allen wrote:
> > Greetings
> > 
> > Running Fedora Core 3 and dovecot-0.99.13-3.FC3 as a production mail
> > server for around 30+ accounts.
> > 
> > A couple of times a day dovecot just stops.
> > 
> > Nothing in the mail log except for 
> > 
> > Apr 26 00:48:19 sydsrv05 imap-login: Can't connect to auth process at
> > default: Connection refused
> 
> Sounds like Dovecot's master process crashes. Is there a core file
> in /var/run/dovecot directory? If so, do:
> 
> gdb dovecot /var/run/dovecot/core
> bt
> 
> and send the result here.
> 
> Or alternatively do:
> 
> gdb attach `pidof dovecot`
> cont
> (wait for it to crash)
> bt
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