I've been experiencing a similar problem, however it was happening with
the old 1.x branch of Cyrus, so I upgraded to 2.x (among other reasons)
but it still happens occasionally. It seems to have started when I
upgraded the box to Red Hat 7.1 from 7.0.
-Justin
Thus spake Jörg Spilker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hello,
>
> i´ve some strange problem with delivering local mail to my imap box. I´m
> using a SuSE Linux 7.1 distribution with the preinstalled postfix and
> cyrus-imapd (2.0.12, together with the latest SASL package) which i compiled
> myself. Mailbox_transport is set to cyrus and cyrus is set up in master.cf
> to call deliver. This can work for several days but then i found my
> mailqueue full with messages for localhost and lots of "hanging" deliver
> processes. All the deliver processes are waiting in the read system call. I
> had to stop cyrus and postfix, kill all deliver processes and then start the
> services again. This will empty the queue until it happens next.
>
> I´ve no idea if the problem is caused by cyrus or postfix.
>
> Greetings, Joerg
>
>
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