[Dovecot] Error: write(auth socket) failed: Broken pipe

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 08:00 -0300, Andre Nathan wrote:
> Hello
> 
> >From time to time I'm seeing errors like this in my logs:
> 
> Mar 16 10:45:55 box5 dovecot: lmtp(5438): Error: write(auth socket)
> failed: Broken pipe

This would mean that the auth process got lost. That shouldn't normally
happen.. Maybe it crashed?

> This causes delivery from postfix to fail until I restart dovecot.

http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/7d9db422549a should help with
this.