Thank you very much! I set:
auth_worker_max_request_count = 10 and I wasn't swamped by 100 emails this morning, so I assume it did the job. I received the following though, only once, coming from the POP3 poller process. I assume this might be a result of Dovecot replying with a value that the Poller doesn't understand? Due to the limit set with the config line from above? Use of uninitialized value in numeric eq (==) at /usr/share/perl/5.10/Net/POP3.pm line 320, <PRODUCT> line 4. Use of uninitialized value in numeric eq (==) at /usr/share/perl/5.10/Net/POP3.pm line 316, <PRODUCT> line 4. ERROR: OTRS-PM3-10 Perl: 5.10.0 OS: linux Time: Mon Dec 1 01:07:08 2008 Message: Auth for user [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed! Traceback (16717): Module: main::FetchMail (v1.25) Line: 162 Module: /usr/share/otrs/bin/PostMasterPOP3.pl (v1.25) Line: 125 Thanks again, Carsten Carsten Buchenau EDIFICE COMMUNICATIONS SA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sonntag, 30. November 2008 02:04 To: Carsten Buchenau Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot POP3 problem: Authentication suddenly failsuntil dovecot gets restarted On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 07:45 +0100, Carsten Buchenau wrote: > Nov 29 07:10:13 wombat dovecot: auth-worker(default): > pam(otrs-incoming,127.0.0.1): pam_start() failed: Critical error - > immediate abort Set this to non-zero: # Number of auth requests to handle before destroying the process. This may # be useful if PAM plugins leak memory. #auth_worker_max_request_count = 0
