[Dovecot] Dovecot randomly stops responding

[Miguel Saturnino]

Hi!

I'm running Dovecot 1.0beta7 on FreeBSD 6.0 (i386) and it randomly stops
responding. To mitigate the problem I made a little ruby scripts which
logs in to the POP3 server every 3 minutes and, in case of error (the
errors are usually timeout or end of file errors), restarts Dovecot.
Although this keeps this keeps things working, I'd like to figure out
what is causing Dovecot to stop responding. Looking at the logs, nothing
stands out except that there is always one or more of these messages
just before Dovecot stops responding:

Apr 20 19:25:00 zeus dovecot[62881]: pop3-login: Disconnected:
Inactivity: rip=209.123.xxx.xxx, lip=64.21.xxx.xxx

Any help debugging this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

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Miguel Saturnino <miguel.saturnino at teiadigital.pt>