IMAP server failing, IMP users booted out

[Craig Richardson]

Hi Everyone,

I suspect this is more of a problem with my IMAP server than IMP, which is 
awesome by the way :) but I was wondering if anyone could help me out.  I ask 
this question here because sometimes it is only my IMP users that have this 
problem.  ie - other IMAP clients (Outlook, Netscape etc) dont.

The problem is every now and again (about once per day) I get the following 
message in /var/log/messages

Oct 23 12:13:56 currawong inetd[417]: imap/tcp server failing (looping), 
service terminated
Oct 23 12:13:56 currawong IMP[32392]: FAILED 137.111.xx.xxx to localhost:143 as 
jenny
Oct 23 12:14:04 currawong IMP[30616]: FAILED 137.111.xx.xxx to localhost:143 as 
anna
Oct 23 12:14:11 currawong IMP[32398]: FAILED 137.111.xx.xxx to localhost:143 as 
anna
Oct 23 12:14:48 currawong IMP[1824]: FAILED 137.111.xx.xxx to localhost:143 as 
carl

After an arbitary amount of time it seems imap is restarted, otherwise if I am 
around a quick kill -HUP inetd will fix the problem.

I have the following config
RH 6.1
apache 1.3.14
imap 4.6
php 4.0.4
mysql 3.22.25
IMP 2.2.4

any suggestions as to what to check next would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,
Craig

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Craig Richardson, BSc
Systems Administrator
Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science
email: craig@maccs.mq.edu.au
phone: +61 2 9850 6730
office: C5A567

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