Hi, new user here, trying to track down an issue. Sometimes, after
starting dovecot, I'll attempt to check mail and will not be able to
get a connection to my server. I'll kill dovecot, restart it, and
usually it will begin working. When I first ran into this, I first
tried auth_debug=yes, restarted dovecot, and had no problems. I'd
turn set auth_debug=no, restart dovecot, and would be unable to check
mail. After a time I determined that setting the debug wasn't really
effecting anything, it was just hit or miss if I'd be able to get a
connection. Once I was able to get a connection, things were fine
until dovecot started again.
Nothing unusual in the logs, if it works or not, I'll just see this at
startup:
Mar 25 21:34:48 mail-web-server dovecot[664]: dovecot v1.1.13 starting
up (core dumps disabled)
Mar 25 21:34:48 mail-web-server dovecot[664]: auth-worker(default):
mysql: Connected to localhost (postfix)
If debug is on and connections aren't being accepted, I never see
anything in the logs.
Below is my config. Running on OS X 10.5.6. Any info on
troubleshooting would be appreciated.
mail-web-server:~ wright$ sudo /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -n
Password:
# 1.1.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
# OS: Darwin 9.6.0 i386 hfs
protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s
ssl_disable: yes
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
login_user: _dovecot
login_max_processes_count: 64
max_mail_processes: 128
first_valid_uid: 27
last_valid_uid: 27
first_valid_gid: 27
last_valid_gid: 27
mail_privileged_group: postfix
mail_uid: 27
mail_gid: 27
mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n
mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3
namespace:
type: private
inbox: yes
list: yes
subscriptions: yes
auth default:
mechanisms: plain login cram-md5
passdb:
driver: sql
args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf
userdb:
driver: sql
args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf
socket:
type: listen
client:
path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
mode: 432
user: postfix
group: postfix
