Jure Pecar wrote: > Recently I have more and more users complaining about errors accesing > their mailboxes via pop. I woundn't (couldn't) really care about > them, but one of them is now my boss :) > > So I started looking into it and we came up with the following > procedure to recreate the problem: > > open outlook > let it connect to the mail account > let it start download new msgs > kill it via "end task" > > Cyrus keeps the connection open and all following attempts to log in > fail.
Are you using any "transparent" network devices (say, an intrusion detection device)? I had a problem similar to yours but mine was caused by an IDS. Relevant thread: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=info-cyrus&m=108750460517979 I would suggest trying to find the pop3d process that is stuck and strace it to see what it is doing... ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
