[Dovecot] Problems with dovecot 1.0rc5 + MySQL 5.0.24

Daniel Torreblanca regulatethis at gmail.com
Thu Aug 24 07:28:00 EEST 2006


I'll give that a shot, thanks guys.

This is all running on one box for now. The problems might rest fully
with MySQL.

On 8/23/06, Chris Cappuccio <chris at nmedia.net> wrote:
> You need to look at your mysql error log.  The defaults on OpenBSD 3.9
> are rather low and you may be running out of file descriptors for the
> mysql process or some other wierdness.  I use mysql 5.0 with openbsd 4.0
> (snapshot) and it works great, but I increase openfiles-cur in the daemon
> class (see /etc/login.conf) to 8192 and kern.maxfiles to 16384 (see
> /etc/sysctl.conf)
>
> Daniel Torreblanca [regulatethis at gmail.com] wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm having an intermittent problem logging users in through a webmail
> > client (RoundCube). My maillog reports this:
> >
> > auth(default): vmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has gone away
> > imap-login: Disconnected: user=<sales at coppersinkdepot.com>,
> > method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
> >
> > The MySQL server hasn't gone anywhere, I can log into it fine and
> > other apps report no problems with it.
> >
> > Restarting Dovecot fixes this issue, but it'll just happen again later.
> >
> > I'm on OpenBSD 3.9 using vpopmail.
> >
> > I've looked through the mailing list archives but can't find any info
> > on this specific problem.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
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