Michael / Eric, I will stop and start qmail with only the MAXDAEMONS=40 bumped up to MAXDAEMONS=50 and see if the problem comes back. Thanks, Dave
Eric Shubert wrote: > I don't believe so. Restarting qmail does not restart courier/imap. > You'd need to either stop qmail and start it again, or do the commands > that are in the qmail-spam and qmail-clamav scripts, except substitute > imap4 (and imap4-ssl). > > Michael Colvin wrote: >> Will restarting just Qmail pick up those changes? >> >> >> >> >> >> **Michael J. Colvin** >> >> **NorCal Internet Services** >> >> **//www.norcalisp.com// <http://www.norcalisp.com/>** >> >> >> >> <http://www.norcalisp.com/> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> *From:* Dave Hallowell [mailto:[email protected]] >> *Sent:* Monday, March 01, 2010 12:37 PM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: squirrelmail/imap issue >> >> >> >> So I bumped up the MAXDAEMONS=50 and restarted qmail. About four >> hours later, I have 43 imapd processes running and getting new mail >> results in a timeout on thunderbird. I killall imapd processes, and >> can get emails immediately. I noticed there is also a MAXPERIP=4 and >> I bumped it up to MAXPERIP=6 and restarted qmail. See if that works. >> Dave >> >> Dave Hallowell wrote: >> >> Jake, >> Ah ha. I see MAXDAEMONS=40. How'd I miss that? Okay, I'll bump it up >> and see what happens. Any suggestions on the number or just trial and >> error? >> Thanks Jake. >> Dave >> >> Jake Vickers wrote: >> >> On 03/01/2010 10:23 AM, Dave Hallowell wrote: >> >> Helmut, >> I recently ran into this problem with imap timing out. I don't use >> squirrelmail much, but I was getting timeouts using thunderbird when >> trying to send and receive from imap email accounts. I read a post >> on this list about timeouts when the number of imap processes reached >> a certain number. In my case, when I had the smtp timeouts, I would >> run from the command line >> # ps -ef | grep imapd | wc -l >> and it would always return 43 processes when I was having problems. >> 42 processes, everything ran fine. When I had 43 imapd processes >> running and experiencing issues, I would run this from the command line. >> # /usr/bin/killall -9 imapd >> this would kill all the current imapd processes and sending and >> receiving email resumed properly. >> I am running Centos4.8 and I haven't done an update for several >> months. Still running qmail-toaster-1.03-1.3.18. >> I also analyzed, checked, and repaired my vpopmail database but this >> did not solve this issue. >> So until I can figure out what is really causing this, I wrote a >> little script that runs from cron every 5 minutes and if there are >> more than 42 imapd processes running, it kills them. Here is the >> script if you wish to use it. >> ------ snip ----------- >> DT=`date` >> KILLIT="/usr/bin/killall -9 imapd" >> PID=`ps -ef | grep imapd | wc -l` >> if [ $PID -gt 42 ] >> then >> #echo "too high" >> echo $DT >> /oper/kill.log >> echo $PID >> /oper/kill.log >> $KILLIT > /dev/null 2>&1 >> fi >> ----- snip --------- >> >> >> >> Have you looked at the imapd config and ensured the MAXDAEMONS is set >> high enough? >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Qmailtoaster is sponsored by Vickers Consulting Group >> (www.vickersconsulting.com <http://www.vickersconsulting.com>) >> Vickers Consulting Group offers Qmailtoaster support and >> installations. If you need professional help with your setup, contact >> them today! >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Please visit qmailtoaster.com for the latest news, updates, and >> packages. To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> For >> additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Qmailtoaster is sponsored by Vickers Consulting Group >> (www.vickersconsulting.com) Vickers Consulting Group offers >> Qmailtoaster support and installations. If you need professional help >> with your setup, contact them today! >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Please visit qmailtoaster.com for the latest news, updates, and >> packages. To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> [email protected] For additional >> commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Qmailtoaster is sponsored by Vickers Consulting Group (www.vickersconsulting.com) Vickers Consulting Group offers Qmailtoaster support and installations. If you need professional help with your setup, contact them today! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit qmailtoaster.com for the latest news, updates, and packages. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
