heck, engardelinux doesn't even install "man" ...
("bash: man: command not found) ...but i have taken your suggestion that it might be related to logging and changed a couple of settings in logrotate.conf ... i'll wait a day or so and see if that makes a difference .... thanks again for the help. --- Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > man imapd > ought to tell you which imap you have installed. > (Assuming imapd is the name of your daemon) > > Whichever one it is, it is pretty easy to change to > a different one. > I use Courier-imap which works pretty well for me. > Another alternative is University of Washington > imap, and there are a couple of others too. > > derek > > n Thu, 7 Nov 2002 08:42:30 -0800 (PST) > Kenn Murrah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > thanks, derek ... > > > > it occurs several times a day at seemingly random > > times ... > > > > i've looked in /var/log/ and i can't figure out > where > > imap is writing ... is it messages? or mail? or > > somewhere else? > > > > also, i don't know how to determine which imap is > > running ... it installed by default with > engardelinux > > .. > > > > thanks for the continued help. > > > > > > --- Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you are losing connection to an IMAP client > it is > > > your IMAP server which > > > has the issue not Postfix. Which IMAP server are > you > > > using? > > > > > > Does this happen at the same time every day? If > so > > > your IMAP server may have a > > > cron job, or an entry in /etc/logrotate.d which > is > > > 'tidying up' every day > > > and restarting the server. > > > > > > derek > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 1:59 pm, Kenn Murrah > wrote: > > > > Greetings. > > > > > > > > > > > > I've just set up a postfix mail server on an > > > Engarde > > > > (community) Linux box ... The good news is > that is > > > > works ALMOST all the time :-) > > > > > > > > > > > > But periodically (for no reason that I can > find), > > > the > > > > mail server seems to shut down, giving the > client > > > an > > > > error like "IMAP connection to server has been > > > broken" > > > > ... it's not a client issue, because when it > > > happens, > > > > ALL users attempting to access mail get a > similar > > > > message, regardless of platform ... > > > > > > > > > > > > Any ideas what's wrong? I'm wondering if my > linux > > > box > > > > itself (with only one NIC being used) might > be > > > part > > > > of the problem ... Would the problem go away > if I > > > used > > > > two NICs, one for my connection to the outside > > > world, > > > > and one for connection to my intranet??? (that > may > > > be > > > > totally irrelevant, but I'm grasping at straws > > > here) > > > > .... > > > > > > > > > > > > And course, the answer may lie in the logs ... > but > > > I'm > > > > far too much of a newbie to know what I'm > looking > > > for > > > > in them... > > > > > > > > > > > > Any and all help would be appreciated. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > > > > > Kenn Murrah > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > > U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos > > > > http://launch.yahoo.com/u2 > > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from > > MandrakeSoft? > > > > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos > > http://launch.yahoo.com/u2 > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2
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