gnus+dovecot anyone?

gnus+dovecot anyone?

[Joakim Verona]

I have been using gnus+dovecot imapd for some time. 

recently, say 1 month back or so, I get some form of timeout.

That is, after a while of inactivity, I get an error when accessing a
mailbox. Next time I try it works.

Anyone with a similar setup who can offer hints?
-- 
Joakim Verona
www.verona.se

Re: gnus+dovecot anyone?

[Mark Plaksin]

Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se> writes:

> I have been using gnus+dovecot imapd for some time. 
>
> recently, say 1 month back or so, I get some form of timeout.
>
> That is, after a while of inactivity, I get an error when accessing a
> mailbox. Next time I try it works.
>
> Anyone with a similar setup who can offer hints?

I have just started testing Dovecot and have seen a few hangs.  It looks
like Dovecot is hanging.  We are using Dovecot's rawlog (which shows the
IMAP conversation on the server) and the hang is always associated with a
UID STORE command.  Most of the hangs occur when sending mail but it
happens at other times too.  We're still debugging it.

Re: gnus+dovecot anyone?

[Joakim Verona]

Thanks Mark,

I swiched to use plaintext auth instead of ssl now, and it works. 
Its ok, because I use dovecot locally.


Mark Plaksin <happy@usg.edu> writes:

> Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se> writes:
>
>> I have been using gnus+dovecot imapd for some time. 
>>
>> recently, say 1 month back or so, I get some form of timeout.
>>
>> That is, after a while of inactivity, I get an error when accessing a
>> mailbox. Next time I try it works.
>>
>> Anyone with a similar setup who can offer hints?
>
> I have just started testing Dovecot and have seen a few hangs.  It looks
> like Dovecot is hanging.  We are using Dovecot's rawlog (which shows the
> IMAP conversation on the server) and the hang is always associated with a
> UID STORE command.  Most of the hangs occur when sending mail but it
> happens at other times too.  We're still debugging it.
>
>
>

-- 
Joakim Verona
www.verona.se

Re: gnus+dovecot anyone?

[Mark Plaksin]

Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se> writes:

> Thanks Mark,
>
> I swiched to use plaintext auth instead of ssl now, and it works. 
> Its ok, because I use dovecot locally.

Interesting.  I finally ran gdb on one of the hung processes yesterday.  It
was either stuck in flock or in a loop trying to get an flock.

What's especially strange is that nobody else sees this.  We're still just
testing, and none of the other testers are using Gnus.