[Dovecot] Configuration problem?

[Anne Wilson]

On 6 February 2012 17:49, Dennis Guhl <dg at dguhl.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 05:33:01PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> I have a new Scientific Linux 6.1 mail server (dovecot -n below) and
>> am seeing the following in the logs, with no idea what is happening:
>>
>>  --------------------- Dovecot Begin ------------------------
>>
>>
>>  Dovecot was killed, and not restarted afterwards.
>
> You shut dovecot down and does not restart it.
>
It appears to be doing things without my intervention.  Despite the
reports that it kept shutting down, Dovecot continued to serve
messages throughout the day.

>>  **Unmatched Entries**
>>     dovecot: imap(anne): Connection closed bytes=205614/894243: 1 Time(s)
>
> [..]
>
>>     dovecot: imap(anne): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=7914/89868: 1 Time(s)
>
> The user closed the connection.
>
>>     dovecot: imap: Server shutting down. bytes=1309821/4473013: 1 Time(s)
>
> [..]
>
>>     dovecot: imap: Server shutting down. bytes=3146/79269: 1 Time(s)
>
> The server closed the connection due to a shutdown command.
>
>>     dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.0.9 starting up (core dumps disabled): 1 Time(s)
>
> Dovecot did what it just said: it started.
>
> Your logwatch is to old to knew about the messages dovecot emits to
> syslog.
>
> HTH
> Dennis
>
> [..]

You mean the version of logwatch is too old?  I'm beginning to wonder
whether running an Enterprise version is such a good idea after all.

Anne