Hi, we are experiencing similar sporadic data timeout issues with dovecot 2.0.20 as in http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2011-June/059807.html at least once a week. Some mails get temporarily deferred in the postfix queue since dovecot director lmtp refuses them and the mails are delivered at a later time.
The problem applies to mails delivered to single users as well as distribution lists where the mails gets delivered to several mailboxes by postfix. The postfix log shows the following output: postfix.log.7.gz:Apr 21 18:48:46 10.129.3.233 postfix/lmtp[15868]: 88062C08E: to=<usern...@example.org>, orig_to=<usern...@example.org>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:20024, delay=35, delays=5.4/0.01/0/30, dsn=4.4.0, status=deferred (host 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 451 4.4.0 Remote server not answering (timeout while waiting for reply to DATA reply) (in reply to end of DATA command)) The dovecot.log (mailbox and director log there via syslog) shows the following output: Apr 21 18:46:53 10.129.3.233 dovecot: lmtp(15869): Debug: none: root=, index=, control=, inbox=, alt= Apr 21 18:46:53 10.129.3.233 dovecot: lmtp(15869): Connect from 127.0.0.1 Apr 21 18:46:53 10.129.3.233 dovecot: lmtp(15869): Debug: auth input: user=usern...@example.org proxy port=19024 host=10.129.3.190 proxy_refresh=450 Apr 21 18:46:53 10.129.3.233 dovecot: lmtp(15869): Disconnect from 127.0.0.1: Client quit (in reset) Apr 21 18:47:29 10.129.3.233 dovecot: lmtp(15869): Debug: none: root=, index=, control=, inbox=, alt= Apr 21 18:47:29 10.129.3.233 dovecot: lmtp(15869): Connect from 127.0.0.1 Apr 21 18:47:29 10.129.3.233 dovecot: lmtp(15869): Debug: auth input: user=usern...@example.org proxy port=19024 host=10.129.3.190 proxy_refresh=450 Apr 21 18:47:29 10.129.3.233 dovecot: lmtp(15869): Disconnect from 127.0.0.1: Client quit (in reset) Apr 21 18:48:15 10.129.3.233 dovecot: lmtp(15869): Debug: none: root=, index=, control=, inbox=, alt= Apr 21 18:48:15 10.129.3.233 dovecot: lmtp(15869): Connect from 127.0.0.1 Apr 21 18:48:15 10.129.3.233 dovecot: lmtp(15869): Debug: auth input: user=usern...@example.org proxy port=19024 host=10.129.3.190 proxy_refresh=450 Apr 21 18:48:46 10.129.3.233 dovecot: lmtp(15869): Disconnect from 127.0.0.1: Client quit (in reset) One cannot identify the lmtp log origin from the log_format prefixes, but it seems that the "lmtp($PID)" log originated from the director, since proxy port 19024 is mentioned in the logs, which is our dovecot mailbox backend. Config for dovecot (mailbox) and director (proxy) is attached. mail_debug is yes for both dovecot and director. How can we find out more information? Shall I apply the following patches from http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2011-June/059987.html or are they already included with version 2.0.20? Regards, Daniel
# 2.0.20: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-40-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS auth_cache_negative_ttl = 0 auth_cache_size = 10 M auth_cache_ttl = 1 mins auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = sha1 deliver_log_format = mailbox: deliver: msgid=%m from=%f: %$ dict { quota = mysql:/etc/dovecot/conf.d/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext } disable_plaintext_auth = no lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes login_greeting = Mailbox login_log_format = mailbox: login: %$: %s login_trusted_networks = 10.129.3.0/24 mail_debug = yes mail_gid = vmail mail_home = /mail/dovecot/%d/%n mail_location = mdbox:~/mail mail_log_prefix = "mailbox: mail: %s(%u): " mail_plugins = quota mail_privileged_group = vmail mail_uid = vmail managesieve_implementation_string = Sieve managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave mdbox_rotate_interval = 1 weeks mdbox_rotate_size = 50 M mmap_disable = yes passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/conf.d/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { quota = dict:User quota::proxy::quota quota_rule = *:storage=10G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+100M quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service dict { unix_listener dict { group = vmail mode = 0660 } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 19143 } } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = * port = 19024 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 19200 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 19110 } } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning unix_listener quota-warning { user = vmail } user = dovecot } ssl = no userdb { driver = prefetch } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/conf.d/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = quota sieve }
# 2.0.20: /etc/dovecot-director/dovecot-director.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-40-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = sha1 base_dir = /var/run/dovecot-director deliver_log_format = director: deliver: msgid=%m from=%f: %$ director_mail_servers = 10.129.3.193 10.129.3.192 10.129.3.191 10.129.3.190 director_servers = 10.129.3.193 10.129.3.192 10.129.3.191 10.129.3.190 lmtp_proxy = yes login_greeting = Mail Balancer login_log_format = director: login: %$: %s login_trusted_networks = 10.129.3.0/24 mail_debug = yes mail_gid = vmail mail_home = /mail/dovecot/%d/%n mail_location = mdbox:~/mail mail_log_prefix = "director: mail: %s(%u): " mail_privileged_group = vmail mail_uid = vmail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave mmap_disable = yes passdb { args = proxy=y nopassword=y user=%n@dovecotmail.%d driver = static } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { user = dovecot } } service director { fifo_listener login/proxy-notify { mode = 0666 } inet_listener { port = 9090 } unix_listener director-userdb { mode = 0600 } unix_listener login/director { mode = 0666 } } service imap-login { executable = imap-login director inet_listener imap { port = 20143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 20993 ssl = yes } } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = * port = 20024 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 20200 } } service pop3-login { executable = pop3-login director inet_listener pop3 { port = 20110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 20995 ssl = yes } } ssl_cert = </etc/certs/wildcard.crt ssl_key = </etc/certs/wildcard.key verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { auth_socket_path = director-userdb passdb { args = proxy=y nopassword=y port=19024 driver = static } } protocol sieve { auth_socket_path = director-userdb passdb { args = proxy=y nopassword=y port=19200 driver = static } } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep }