[Dovecot] Dovecot randomly stops responding

[Miguel Saturnino]

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 01:18 +0100, Miguel Saturnino wrote:
> 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
> 

It turns out this problem was the result of starting Dovecot when it was
already running (my DirectAdmin control panel was randomly starting
Dovecot thinking it had stopped, when it had not). Anyway, there might
be some malfunction with Dovecot, because it probably should not stop
responding if started when already running.

Regards,

-- 
Miguel Saturnino <miguel.saturnino at teiadigital.pt>