* myron <kowal...@cs.moravian.edu>:
> This morning I came in to find no new mail in my inbox. I ended up
> reboot the server. These were the log entries that seem to indicate
> when and the
> problem was. I checked the time on the server and it was not off at
> all. Can someone suggest from these entries what the problem was?
> 
> Jul  2 20:52:11 errol dovecot: dovecot: Fatal: Time just moved
> backwards by 9 seconds. This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll
> just kill myself now. http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards

Dovevot killed itself because the time moved backwards by 9 seconds.
BTW: why? Use NTP!
 
> Jul  2 20:52:18 errol postfix/smtpd[31292]: warning: SASL: Connect to
> private/auth-client failed: Connection refused

Consequently postfix which is using dovecot for AUTH cannot AUTH
anymore.

Restart dovecot.

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