[BlueOnyx:21070] Re: Dovecot (IMAP) problems

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Lewis,

> Have replaced server with a much stouter machine but the number of
> processes for dovecot remains the same.

I'm currently working on upgrading Dovecot to 2.2.30.1-1 on 5207R, 5208R
and 5209R as I hope that the latest version might address some of these
issues. However: As the update isn't trivial and needs a hell of a lot
of testing before I publish it, this will take some time. I hope to have
it ready sometime next week.

>> Cron <root at xxxx> /usr/local/sbin/dfix.sh
>> From     (Cron Daemon)
>> To     root at xxxx.yyyy.zzz
>> Date     Today 07:31
>> Contact photo
>> Message Body
>> Warning: Dovecot process count = 53 processes
>> Stopping dovecot (via systemctl):  [  OK  ]
>> dovecot: no process found
>> dovecot-auth: no process found
>> Starting dbrecover (via systemctl):  Job for dbrecover.service failed
>> because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl
>> status dbrecover.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
>> [FAILED]

In my experience the maximum number of allowed dovecot processes as
specified by the free Dfix package is a bit too arbitrarily picked. I've
seen highly active boxes that easily and without problems supported much
more than what Dfix allowed.

My suggestion: Uninstall Dfix and replace it with Dfix2 from the shop.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber