[Dovecot] Dovecot pop3 locking up

[Neil Wilson]

Hi guys,

Does no one have any idea with regards to my query below?

I logged into the server today, and there are already roughly(50+) of 
the processes.

 > 4204 ?        S      0:00 dovecot-auth
 > 24722 ?        S      0:00 pop3-login
 > 24723 ?        S      0:00 pop3-login
 > 24724 ?        S      0:00 dovecot-auth
 > 24921 ?        S      0:00 dovecot-auth

Neil Wilson wrote:
> Hi guys and girls,
> 
> I am having a problem with Dovecot.
> 
> It seems like it's the dovecot auth daemon that is locking up(I'm guessing)
> 
> I am running SuSe 9.3 Pro, and Dovecot 0.99.14
> 
> Everything works perfectly for a few days, and then eventually I end up 
> with tons of what look to be "stale" processes.(I'm guessing roughly 300 
> like below.)
> 
> 4204 ?        S      0:00 dovecot-auth
> 24722 ?        S      0:00 pop3-login
> 24723 ?        S      0:00 pop3-login
> 24724 ?        S      0:00 dovecot-auth
> 24921 ?        S      0:00 dovecot-auth
> 
> When I "telnet 127.0.0.1 110" I get a login, and I can type "User 
> blabla" I get an "OK" then I type in "pass blabla" and then I don't get 
> any response, and I have to kill my session with "Ctrl ]" and then "quit".
> 
> I am using both POP3 and IMAP, but it seems to be only the POP3 daemon 
> that dies.
> 
> There are roughly 60 users on the network, and it dies after roughly 5 
> days of usage, and I then have to restart Dovecot by running 
> /etc/init.d/dovecot stop and then start
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.