Hi Timo, thanks for your time and analysis. We upgraded our dovecot installations to
# dovecot --version 1.1.13 (Debian Lenny backport package) and the problem went away. It might have been due to our particular infrastructure, now luckily it's working fine. Regards, Sandro Timo Sirainen wrote: > BTW. I'm now trying it with: > > while date ; do kill -HUP $(cat /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/master.pid) ; > sleep 3s ; done > > And at the same time running imaptest (http://imapwiki.org/ImapTest), > which just rapidly logs in and logs out: > > imaptest - clients=8 > > It hasn't broken yet.. > > >> # dovecot --version >> 1.0.15 >> > > It's also possible that it's been fixed in newer versions, although I > can't break it with v1.0 either. > >