Date:  Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:06:03 -0600
From:  "Bill Berg" <billberg (at mark) northernweb.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:15090] Re: Mail servers
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Message-Id:  <200902171606.n1HG62Aa031561 (at mark) bugs.northernweb.net>
In-Reply-To:  <49931C82.2080308 (at mark) dogsbody.org>
X-Mail-Count: 15090

 
I don't know if that narrows down the problem, everything worked except the
dovecot:

[root@ ~]# service dovecot stop
Stopping Dovecot Imap: [FAILED]
[root@ ~]# service dovecot start
Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: listen(0.0.0.0, 110) failed: Address already
in use
[FAILED]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:46:16 -0600, Gerald Waugh wrote
> 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