We have just put a new server into production running UW-imapd-ssl. Within an hour or two we started getting the following message in syslog:
Jul 1 08:32:51 messenger inetd[19852]: imap2/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated I read the UW-Imapd documentation and it suggested that we increase the max connections per minute allowed for the imap2 port in the inetd.conf file. This helped, however, our problem did not go away entirely. Instead of getting the error message every 2-6 minutes, we now get it every 12 minutes or so. We've tried setting the max really high (100,000) but even that does not eliminate the problem. Does anyone have an idea of what might be going on here? Is this a bug in inetd or uw-imapd? Should I switch to a different inetd server like xinetd? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
