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
>>
>>
>
>
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