On 25.10.2010, at 14.13, Alan Brown wrote: > Oct 25 12:36:34 msslat dovecot: imap(keh2): Error: user keh2: Initialization > failed: Namespace '#mbox/': mkdir(/stage/mail/imap1/keh2/mail) failed: > Permission denied (euid=2291(keh2) egid=101(luci) missing +w perm: > /stage/mail/imap1, euid is not dir owner) > > Because the parent directory was rwxr-xr-x root.root
Right.. > The problem is that for some reason dovecot then wedged and a lot of other > stuff piled up behind it, causing people to complain their mail wasn't coming > through. Load average climbed to over 100. > > Creating the user directories freed things up... So the problem is that if there's a misconfiguration, load goes up? I don't really know if there's much to do about this. I guess it could wait a second or so before disconnecting client to avoid it reconnecting back too fast..
