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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/01/2015 07:29 AM, Gerald Waugh
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      <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/29/2015 03:36 PM, Greg Kuhnert
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            <div class="">On 30 Jun 2015, at 6:17 am, Gerald Waugh <<a
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              On 06/29/2015 02:19 PM, Michael Stauber wrote:<br class="">
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                <blockquote type="cite" class="">Jun 29 07:44:27
                  /host/// dovecot: auth: Error: auth worker: Aborted<br
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                  PASSV request for email_user: Worker process died
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                  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="">
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                Restart Dovecot and see if that fixes it:<br class="">
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                /sbin/service dovecot restart<br class="">
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              restarting dovecot fixes, but why does it happen?<br
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              server is 5106R running fail2ban<br>
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      restarting dovecot does not fix it, we have to reboot the server.<br>
      This issue continues.<br>
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    CentOS release 5.11 (Final)<br>
    BlueOnyx build 20140205 for a 5106R in en_US<br>
    dovecot  version 2.2.15<br>
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    5,000 + instances of "Worker process died unexpectedly"<br>
    Only happens for small number of  users or from a small number of
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