<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 30 Jun 2015, at 6:17 am, Gerald Waugh <<a href="mailto:gwaugh@frontstreetnetworks.com" class="">gwaugh@frontstreetnetworks.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><br class="">On 06/29/2015 02:19 PM, Michael Stauber wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi Gerald,<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Jun 29 07:44:27 /host/// dovecot: auth: Error: auth worker: Aborted<br class="">PASSV request for email_user: Worker process died unexpectedly<br class="">Jun 29 07:44:29 /host/// dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login (auth<br class="">failed, 1 attempts in 2 secs): user=<email_user>, method=PLAIN,<br class="">rip=1.2.3.4, lip=5.6.7.8, session=<2B1Hc6cZrgDRygR3><br class=""></blockquote>Restart Dovecot and see if that fixes it:<br class=""><br class="">/sbin/service dovecot restart<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote>restarting dovecot fixes, but why does it happen?<br class="">server is 5106R running fail2ban<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Possibly a bug in dovecot. One such bug is documented here - <a href="http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2014-October/098234.html" class="">http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2014-October/098234.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you wanted to dig more, I would suggest enabling debug logging and/or using strace and see what pops up.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">GK</div></body></html>