[Dovecot] Jul 06 13:00:50 dovecot: Warning: I/O leak: 806ef10 (36)

Dennis Clarke dclarke at blastwave.org
Tue Jul 6 16:08:37 EEST 2010


I'm currently fighting my way through the dovecot configuration pages and
endless options to see if I can just get my mail from the server. Thus far
no joy but dovecot seems to be working if I could figure out the
configuration.  My process thus far has been :

1) read docs
2) try a config change
3) fail
4) goto (1)

I just saw an error while trying to read my /var/mail/dclarke good 'ol
mbox in the message.log :

Jul 06 12:58:50 IMAP(dclarke): Error: mbox root directory can't be a file:
/var/mail/dclarke/ (http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Mbox)

So I figure I better go read that page again and see what I did wrong this
time. I guess this is wrong :

   mail_location: mbox:/var/mail/%u

Even though that is where the mail actually is :

# ls -lap /var/mail
total 34
drwxrwxrwt   3 root     mail           6 Jul  6 02:19 ./
drwxr-xr-x  47 root     sys           47 May 30 02:52 ../
drwxrwxr-x   2 root     mail           2 May 29 23:47 :saved/
-rw-rw----   1 dclarke  mail           0 Jul  5 16:01 dclarke
-rw-rw----   1 lucone   mail         657 Jul  2 17:55 lucone
-rw-rw----   1 root     mail        8705 Jul  2 05:40 root
#

I shutdown the dovecot service on Solaris via svcadm and saw this in the
error log :


Jul 06 13:00:50 dovecot: Warning: I/O leak: 806ef10 (36)
Jul 06 13:00:50 dovecot: Warning: I/O leak: 806ef10 (30)
Jul 06 13:00:50 dovecot: Warning: I/O leak: 806ef10 (26)
Jul 06 13:00:50 dovecot: Warning: I/O leak: 806ef10 (24)


I'm not too sure what that means but it doesn't look good.

Here is some info :

# /opt/csw/sbin/dovecot -n
# 1.2.12: /etc/opt/csw/dovecot/dovecot.conf
Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load
(more than 640). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count
and max_mail_processes settings
# OS: SunOS 5.10 i86pc  zfs
base_dir: /var/opt/csw/dovecot/
log_path: /var/opt/csw/dovecot/error.log
info_log_path: /var/opt/csw/dovecot/message.log
protocols: imap pop3 imaps pop3s
ssl: required
ssl_cert_file: /etc/opt/csw/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
ssl_key_file: /etc/opt/csw/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2
verbose_ssl: yes
login_dir: /var/opt/csw/dovecot//login
login_executable(default): /opt/csw/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /opt/csw/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /opt/csw/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
login_greeting: Dovecot from Blastwave.org is ready.
login_max_processes_count: 64
verbose_proctitle: yes
mail_location: mbox:/var/mail/%u
mail_debug: yes
mail_executable(default): /opt/csw/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /opt/csw/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /opt/csw/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir(default): /opt/csw/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /opt/csw/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /opt/csw/lib/dovecot/pop3
auth default:
  passdb:
    driver: pam
  userdb:
    driver: passwd


Any thoughts before I enter the infinite loop noted at the top of this
message ?   :-)

-- 
Dennis



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