[Dovecot] Errors when searching large folders

[Wouter Van Hemel]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Mike Jakubik wrote:

> Wouter Van Hemel said:
>
>>> This is the error i get:
>>>
>>> ---
>>> ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server.
>>> Query: SEARCH CHARSET ISO-8859-1 ALL BODY {5} hello BODY {5} there
>>> ---
>>>
>>> At this point the HD led remain on for another 30 seconds or so.
>>>
>>
>> Do you have any logs from dovecot?
>
> Nothing is logged by dovecot (other than the usual login messages), and i
> cant find any verbose or debugging log options in the conf file.
>

Which version of dovecot? How much memory does the server have? Perhaps 
it's an OOM kill?