We're getting geared up to move from a *very* old Cyrus IMAP server running on a sparc/solaris to a Dual x86 with FreeBSD ... currently, we have 2.0.16 installed from ports, and about 9 users on the system, so load is minimal ...
We do have our postmaster mailbox on that system, which gets the most email for a campus of >4000 students, staff and faculty ... Lately, the server has been "locking up" more and more frequently ... not the machine/os, but, the lmtp stuff ... maillog shows: Jan 31 21:00:49 new-relay sendmail[81380]: g1110XM81307: SYSERR(root): Could not connect to socket /var/spool/imap/socket/lmtp: Connection refused by localhost Jan 31 21:00:49 new-relay sendmail[81384]: g110TgM76189: SYSERR(root): Could not connect to socket /var/spool/imap/socket/lmtp: Connection refused by localhost Jan 31 21:00:49 new-relay sendmail[81386]: g1110SM81279: SYSERR(root): Could not connect to socket /var/spool/imap/socket/lmtp: Connection refused by localhost Jan 31 21:00:49 new-relay sendmail[81383]: g1110BM81243: SYSERR(root): Could not connect to socket /var/spool/imap/socket/lmtp: Connection refused by localhost Jan 31 21:00:50 new-relay sendmail[81389]: g1110XM81305: SYSERR(root): Could not connect to socket /var/spool/imap/socket/lmtp: Connection refused by localhost Jan 31 21:00:50 new-relay sendmail[81385]: g110iKM78675: SYSERR(root): Could not connect to socket /var/spool/imap/socket/lmtp: Connection refused by localhost to fix, I have to kill off the master process, and restart it, and then she processes everything from the queue until the next time it 'hangs' ... I've looked through the changes file for 2.1.1, and see one point about: " * fixed a problem with LMTP AUTH and unix domain sockets " But that appears to be about it ... Its as if the master process can't start up a new lmtp process after a period of time? Thoughts? Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Administrator Acadia University "These are my opinions, which are not necessarily shared by my employer"
