kyle-qmail at memoryhole
Jun 17, 2009, 7:50 AM
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Re: Help me : can not use POP3 to load mail from server (qmail) to client
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On Wednesday, June 17 at 05:07 PM, quoth Nguyen Minh Son:
> But yesterday, I found that my mail client (Microsoft outlook 2007,
> outlook express, thunder bird, .) can not load mail from server
> through POP3 SSL although they could send mail. I logged in my qmail
> server, stopped and started qmail service and it run normally. But
> after 2 hours, pop3 service down again.
Your setup is incorrect---your multilog is unable to save log messages
to disk, and so instead buffers them. Eventually, its memory (buffer)
fills up, and it cannot accept more log messages. If any component of
qmail cannot create log messages, that component simply stops (this is
a good security measure). When you restart the service, you're
clearing out the memory buffer, and so it will appear to work again...
until that buffer fills up, at which point it will stop again.
> I looked in qmail log but I found nothing.
That's the key piece of evidence.
If you do this: `ps ax | grep readproc` you will probably see a bunch
of error messages from multilog complaining that it cannot lock the
directory you told it to use for log files. Chances are it is either
because your log directory has incorrect permissions, OR it is because
you told your pop3 logs to be stored in the same directory as some
other qmail logs (multilog requires separate folders for each
instance), OR you have a rogue multilog running somewhere (e.g. your
multilog run file has an extra ampersand at the end).
~Kyle
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