[Dovecot] dovecot behaving badly after upgrade..

[Adrian Vasile]

Hi,

It doesn't matter who's fault it is. I run Dovecot with mysql auth and
it does the same..
the idea is that mysql has a timeout for connections so, after a period
of inactivity it closes the connection.
I don't know if Dovecot uses what the developers from mysql propose:
if mysql_ping != ok then reconnect
I didn't have time to browse the sources.

The lazy work-around I made is modifying the pop3/imap monitor of mon
and every 15 min, mon logs into dovecot
with a test account :)

It's the same problem with amavis but that's not necesarly amavis's
fault but the DBI people.

PS: I run :
* net-mail/dovecot
     Installed:           0.99.14-r1
     Homepage:            http://dovecot.org/
     Description:         An IMAP and POP3 server written with security
primarily in mind

* dev-db/mysql
     Installed:           5.0.17
     Homepage:            http://www.mysql.com/
     Description:         A fast, multi-threaded, multi-user SQL
database server

maybe using pam_mysql would solve this issue..

daniel petre wrote:

>
> i dont think its vpopmail's fault, since THIS running version is OKAY:
>
> delfix ~ # emerge -s dovecot
> Searching...
> [ Results for search key : dovecot ]
> [ Applications found : 1 ]
>
> *  net-mail/dovecot
>       Latest version available: 1.0_alpha5
>       Latest version installed: 0.99.14-r1
>       Size of downloaded files: 1,236 kB
>       Homepage:    http://dovecot.org/
>       Description: An IMAP and POP3 server written with security 
> primarily in mind
>       License:     LGPL-2.1
>
>
>
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 02:52 +0200, daniel petre wrote:
>>
>>> dovecot: Dec 18 03:42:08 Error: auth(default): vmysql: sql error[3]: 
>>> MySQL server has gone away
>>
>>
>> ..
>>
>>> anyone encountered this?
>>> mysql is not away, i edited dovecot.conf carefully.
>>> what am i missing?
>>
>>
>>
>> That error message is coming from vpopmail libraries, and it looks like
>> it at least thinks it can't connect to MySQL. Looks to me like the
>> problem is in vpopmail's side. There isn't really anything that can be
>> configured for vpopmail from Dovecot's side.
>>
>>
>>
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