OK I've tracked it down and it has something to do with /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/imapd.rc
For some reason, processes started by the imapd.rc file quits responding to login requests for two particular email accounts. Those email accounts are accessed on any one of THREE separate computers. If access to those email accouns is lost, I can stop then start imapd.rc. Everything will work for a while. Then after some unknown time period (it seems to correlate to an increased number of machines that have accessed the account) the imap server quits servicing those accounts. Other accounts are still accessible, it's just those two. (hmm..I may try to access other accounts from various workstations and see what happens. -more on that later I suppose) (ok it's later now. It seems that it's the problem is worse the closer together the timing of mailbox queries are made. It's acting like it's tying up the login processes for those particular users........) The users can STILL use sqwebmail to access their mailboxes. That is one way we verified the that the login information was correct. As far as troubleshooting steps go, I wound up deleting and reinstalling from scratch. For verification and for those of you interested, here are the commands I used. cd /usr/src/courier-imap-1.5.1;make uninstall; rm -r /usr/lib/courier-imap; rm -r *; chmod -R 755 ~vpopmail/lib; su nonrootusr; cd /usr/src; tar -zxvf /usr/download/courier-imap-1.5.1.tar.gz; cd courier-imap-1.5.1.tar.gz; ./configure; make;make check; exit #back to rootuser ; make install; make install-configure (of course I didn't just execute that all on one line! It was a step by step procedure! :) I guess I should have used install-strip instead. DANG IT! ) Googling with the Outlook Express v6 error message (listed below) turns up several links related to WU-IMAP, but sheds no light on what is happening here. Further spelunking reveals that no helpful login failure/troubleshooting messages seem to be recorded in /var/log/maillog. When looking at the log file consider that a reset of imapd.rc at ~16:52 shows that the users can now check their mail/authenticate properly. So. any thoughts? At this point I don't even know where I should be looking. -Richard ***** Supporting documentation below ***** [maillog] Jul 2 16:49:03 RHL imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.100] Jul 2 16:49:08 RHL imapd: LOGIN FAILED, ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.100] Jul 2 16:49:18 RHL imapd: LOGIN FAILED, ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.100] Jul 2 16:49:20 RHL imapd: DISCONNECTED, ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.100], headers=0, body=0 Jul 2 16:49:20 RHL imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.100] Jul 2 16:49:25 RHL imapd: LOGIN FAILED, ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.100] Jul 2 16:49:43 RHL imapd: DISCONNECTED, ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.100], headers=0, body=0 Jul 2 16:54:57 RHL imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.100] Jul 2 16:54:57 RHL imapd: LOGIN, [EMAIL PROTECTED], ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.100] Jul 2 16:54:59 RHL imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.100] Jul 2 16:54:59 RHL imapd: LOGIN, [EMAIL PROTECTED], ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.100] Jul 2 16:55:11 RHL imapd: LOGOUT, [EMAIL PROTECTED], ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.100], headers=0, body=0 Jul 2 16:55:11 RHL imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.100] Jul 2 16:55:11 RHL imapd: LOGIN, [EMAIL PROTECTED], ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.100] Jul 2 16:55:25 RHL imapd: LOGOUT, [EMAIL PROTECTED], ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.100], headers=0, body=0 Jul 2 16:55:25 RHL imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.100] Jul 2 16:55:25 RHL imapd: LOGIN, [EMAIL PROTECTED], ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.100] [/maillog] [packages running on this system] Net_SSLeay.pm-1.17/ autorespond-2.0.2/ courier-imap-1.5.1/ ezmlm-0.53/ ezmlm-idx-0.40/ httpd-2.0.39/ linux-2.4.18/ **With the grsecurity patch version 1.9.4 (grsecurity.net) qmail-1.03/ qmailadmin-1.0.2/ samba-2.2.5/ sqwebmail-3.3.6/ ucspi-tcp-0.88/ vpopmail-5.2.1/ [/packages] [the Outlook Express error message] Login failed. Configuration: Account: (NEW) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Server: www.rain4us.net User name: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Protocol: IMAP Port: 143 Secure(SSL): 0 Code: 800cccd1 [/Outlook Express] [snip from rc.local] echo starting qmail /etc/rc.d/rc.qmail start # Start qmail #start sqwebmail echo Starting sqwebmail /usr/local/share/sqwebmail/libexec/authlib/authdaemond start echo starting Courier-IMAP/POP /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/authlib/authdaemond start /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/imapd.rc start /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/pop3d.rc start [/rc.local] [snip of 'ps wx'] 191 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/share/sqwebmail/libexec/authlib/authdaemond.plain start 192 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/share/sqwebmail/libexec/authlib/authdaemond.plain start 193 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/share/sqwebmail/libexec/authlib/authdaemond.plain start 194 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/share/sqwebmail/libexec/authlib/authdaemond.plain start 196 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/share/sqwebmail/libexec/authlib/authdaemond.plain start 197 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/share/sqwebmail/libexec/authlib/authdaemond.plain start 200 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/authlib/authdaemond.plain start 202 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/authlib/authdaemond.plain start 203 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/authlib/authdaemond.plain start 204 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/authlib/authdaemond.plain start 205 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/authlib/authdaemond.plain start 206 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/authlib/authdaemond.plain start 220 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/couriertcpd -address=0 -stderrlogger=/usr/lib/ courier-imap/libexec/logger - 224 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/logger imapd 238 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/couriertcpd -address=0 -stderrlogger=/usr/lib/ courier-imap/libexec/logger - 246 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/logger pop3d 248 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /command/svscanboot 250 ? S 0:00 svscan /service 251 ? S 0:00 readproctitle service errors: ........................................................................... 252 ? S 0:00 supervise qmail-smtpd 253 ? S 0:00 supervise log 254 ? S 0:00 supervise qmail-send 258 ? S 0:00 supervise log 261 ? S 0:00 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/ [/'ps wx'] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek No, I will not fix your computer. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
