Hey Anton,
You can get some additional debugging by setting the environment
variable CYRUS_VERBOSE to a value > 2 before you start the master. If
you set it to > 30 every pop3d/imapd will sleep 15 seconds to allow a
debugger to connect.
hope this helps..
Regards,
Hugo
Anton Roeckseisen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My system: Solaris 2.7, sendmail 8.11.2, cyrus 2.0.12, sasl 1.5.24, openssl
> 0.9.6
> berkeley-db 3.1.17, perl 5.6.0
>
> I've experienced following Problem an right now tracking it down. Maybe
> someone can share some ideas....
>
> At some point in time email doesn't get delivered any more. Mailqueue gets
> longer and longer with "in transit mails having a '*'" These mails seem to
> stay in the queue forever. Maybe there is also a sendmail problem not timing
> out. Logfile of sendmail says: "timeout waiting for input from local during
> Draining Input". The mails are destined to be delivered locally to the
> cyrus-Mailsystem. I see deliver-Processes and lmtpd's obviously for each
> sendmail-process trying to deliver mail.
>
> If I kill the cyrus-master-process and restart it everything seems to work
> again. After running the mailqueue every mail gets delivered at once.
>
> The whole mess seems to start when a user via dial in drops connection.
> Several old imapd's of this user are hanging around (he don't owns them, but I
> checked with the logfile for who logged in)
>
>
> So I blame a deadlock between imapd doing something and lmtpd trying to get a
> ressource-lock or somthing like that before delivering mail.
>
> Can someone please give a hint how to get more info whats going on with
> debugging swiches or something? I didn't find any hints in the manpages about
> how to turn really verbose debugging on.
>
>
> Thanks for any hints,
> Anton
>
>
>
