sounds like it could be a MTA problem have you looked at postfix or sendmail or whatever it is your using?
On Mon, July 14, 2008 5:58 am, Paul J Stevens wrote: > Kris, > > > I have no idea what could be going on here. Check your database server > is not being shut down, or getting a long lasting write lock on some of the > tables involved. > > For someone not into the server side, you did make an effort. What is > missing is the server logs (/var/log/mail.* most likely). They should > contain errors around the time of your downtime. > > Until you solve this, consider shutting down incoming email during the > time window involved: better email getting late, than not arriving intact > at all. > > Beyond that, please don't be offended by me telling you that this list > is *not* about providing general server maintenance support in case your > admin decides to take a hike. > > > kriswarner wrote: >> Hello all, >> I've tried to look for the solution to this problem to no avail. I >> don't usually deal with the server side of things, so I hope I'll be >> able to provide enough details of it so you can help me out. I have >> dbmail-2.2.x, squirrelmail client, fedora core 6, postfix. Using >> dbmail-lmtpd and dbmail-imapd. Recently, out of the blue, when I went >> to view a message I received an "ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP >> server" and also another one about error in fetch query - can't remember >> exactly what it was. I went into the server and killed one of the >> dbmail-lmtpd processes and tried to restart it. Here's the weird thing >> - during the day, messages will be sent >> and received fine, but then at some point in the evening the only thing >> that will go in or out is the (wrong) date. From field says "Unknown", >> subject says "(No Subject)" and size is 0.1k. After several hours, the >> problem will be fixed, but all the emails sent during this time period >> (not sure how >> long) are missing, except for the date. Here are some of the errors >> that are coming up in the dbmail.err file: >> >> Message no subject field value >> *** glibc detected *** /usr/local/sbin/dbmail-imapd: realloc(): invalid >> next size: 0x09cf2788 *** >> ======= Backtrace: ========= >> /lib/libc.so.6[0x1ccfb0] >> /lib/libc.so.6(realloc+0xfe)[0x1cee9e] >> /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_realloc+0x3b)[0x88573b] >> /usr/local/lib/dbmail/libdbmail.so.0(g_mime_object_get_body+0x75)[0x35db >> 3d] >> /usr/local/lib/dbmail/libdbmail.so.0(imap_get_logical_part+0xd4)[0x37381 >> 8] >> /usr/local/sbin/dbmail-imapd[0x805288d] >> /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_list_foreach+0x21)[0x87bd31] >> /usr/local/sbin/dbmail-imapd[0x8054061] >> /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_tree_foreach+0x45)[0x89fc35] >> /usr/local/sbin/dbmail-imapd(dbmail_imap_session_fetch_get_items+0x26)[0 >> x8052356] /usr/local/sbin/dbmail-imapd(_ic_fetch+0x13c)[0x804fa1c] >> /usr/local/sbin/dbmail-imapd(_ic_uid+0x9b)[0x80511df] >> /usr/local/sbin/dbmail-imapd(IMAPClientHandler+0x5d7)[0x804cbe7] >> /usr/local/lib/dbmail/libdbmail.so.0(PerformChildTask+0x344)[0x377f2c] >> /usr/local/lib/dbmail/libdbmail.so.0(CreateChild+0xc7)[0x378137] >> /usr/local/lib/dbmail/libdbmail.so.0(manage_start_children+0x32)[0x37a76 >> 6] >> /usr/local/lib/dbmail/libdbmail.so.0(StartServer+0x7b)[0x376807] >> /usr/local/lib/dbmail/libdbmail.so.0(server_run+0x332)[0x377542] >> /usr/local/lib/dbmail/libdbmail.so.0(serverparent_mainloop+0x145)[0x3792 >> fd] /usr/local/sbin/dbmail-imapd(main+0x7c)[0x8051954] >> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0)[0x17aec0] >> /usr/local/sbin/dbmail-imapd[0x804c2f1] >> ======= Memory map: ======== >> Message Scoreboard state: children [49/200], spares [49 (2 - 4)] >> Message register child [22665] >> >> >> I'm also getting a ton of these: >> Message incoming connection from [127.0.0.1 (localhost.localhost)] by >> pid [26691] >> Message user (id:x, name xxxxx) tries login >> Message user (id x, name xxxxx) login accepted >> Message user (id:x) logging out @ [2008-07-12 23:58:18] >> Message Closing connection for client from IP [127.0.0.1] >> >> >> Can anyone help me shed some light on this? Could I just simply >> restart the daemons? (and if so, how?) >> >> Thank you very much, >> Kris Warner >> >> > > > -- > ________________________________________________________________ > Paul Stevens paul at nfg.nl > NET FACILITIES GROUP GPG/PGP: 1024D/11F8CD31 > The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl > _______________________________________________ > DBmail mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail > > _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
