Hello, I have been using dbmail very successfully for a few years now
and despite the occasional problem here and there, it has been quite
good. I just ran into something this morning that I haven't seen before.
I tried check my email using Thunderbird as I always do, it was very
slow to connect, so I logged into my server and checked to see if the
imap server was running and if so what it looked like. I did a ps auxww
|grep dbmail-imapd and lines of output came scrolling across my screen
so I did the following:
[root]# ps auxww |grep dbmail-imapd |wc -l
6812
[root]# killall dbmail-imapd
[root]# ps auxww |grep dbmail-imapd |wc -l
6812
[root]# killall -9 dbmail-imapd
[root]# ps auxww |grep dbmail-imapd |wc -l
1
[root]# ps auxww |grep dbmail-imapd
root 7164 0.0 0.0 5572 512 pts/1 S 09:20 0:00 grep
dbmail-imapd
[root]# /usr/local/dbmail2/sbin/dbmail-imapd
[root]# ps auxww |grep dbmail-imapd |wc -l
18
18 is consistent with my dbmail.conf settings, 6812 is NOT. I couldn't
believe I saw over 6000 dbmail imapd processes out there!!!! I have not
seem this before, nothing has changed on my system.
Anyone have any ideas?
System details as follows:
[root]# /usr/local/dbmail2/sbin/dbmail-util -V
DBMail: dbmail-util
Version: 2.0.4
$Revision: 1576 $
Copyright: (c) 1999-2004 IC&S, The Netherlands
[root]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang)
[root]# uname -a
Linux snappy.tocr.com 2.6.10-1.771_FC2 #1 Mon Mar 28 00:50:14 EST 2005
i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
matthew=# select version();
version
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PostgreSQL 8.0.2 on i686-redhat-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC)
3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)
(1 row)
Matt
