[Dovecot] dovecot died

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Wed Oct 17 13:13:34 EEST 2012


On 2012-10-17 2:26 AM, Hendrik <pipefab at mweb.co.za> wrote:
> 05:47:27 scene dovecot: dovecot: Fatal: Time just moved backwards by 35
> seconds. This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself now.
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards

Presumably this is on a shared hosting service, and they haven't gotten 
the VM to sync time properly.

It is absolutely critical that time be kept in sync on servers, 
especially mail servers, so dovecot assumes a serious problem exists 
when time leaps like this happen and kills itself.

Fix the time sync problem on your server (you may have to work with the 
service/hosting provider) and dovecot will stop committing seppuku...

Charles


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