Date:  Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:46:16 -0600
From:  "Gerald Waugh" <gwaugh (at mark) frontstreetnetworks.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:15089] Re: Mail servers
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
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Bill Berg wrote; Tuesday, February 17, 2009 8:50 AM
> 
> We have a strange issue with one of our BQ servers.
> If we have to reboot it, we cannot connect to the pop3
> mail server for the rest of that day. We can use webmail
> just fine, but it won't take any pop3 connections.
> 
> Some process that runs during the night corrects the problem, 
> and we can use regular email the next day.
> 
> Does anybody know what process resets this mail function so I 
> can run it manually now?
> 
service dovecot stop
service xinetd stop
killall -9 dovecot-auth
service dbrecover stop
service dbrecover start
service xinetd start
service dovecot start
service poprelayd restart

Probably overkill, but might work...
And since it seems like you have an immediate problem.
Just paste into a 'root' shell session

Gerald