[Dovecot] 1.0.5: many pop3-login processes?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 14:36 -0400, Alan Ferrency wrote:
> On this particular server we have exactly 2 different users who log in
> via POP, and they seem to be set up to log in automatically once every
> 10 minutes.
> 
> imap-login process count is reasonable: there are 11 processes running
> and it doesn't seem to increase.  pop3-login is the issue.
> 
> I notice in the logs, that the number of imap-login Login: lines matches
> the number of Disconnect: lines in the log. For pop3-login, there are
> 111 Login: lines and only 8 Disconnect: lines. However, there are no
> pop3 processes currently running, as far as I can tell.

Find out what the other reasons for disconnects are. The possibilities
are:

1. It crashed. Can you find any errors/fatals/panics?

2. Client was disconnected by Dovecot: "Couldn't open INBOX", "Mailbox
init failed", "Input line too long", "Server shutting down".

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