On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Andrew Morgan might have said: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Mike Eggleston wrote: > > >It looks like there is just one user that when that user connects to > >cyrus the imapd starts coring and when a message is sent to that user's > >address then lmtpd starts coring. How do I find out what is wrong the > >user's account and why these processes are coring? > > In my experience, this can happen when a user has a corrupted seen file. > Locate the user's seen file and remove it. > > Andy Thank you. I removed the user's seen file and everything started working normally. Any idea why this file got corrupted, how to recover from the corruption other than deleting the file (/var/lib/imap/user/?/$USER.seen), and how to keep the corruption from happening again. This file was corrupted at my site in the middle of the night (sometime after 23:19 local). The user was not actively using IMAP, but the user was still logged into a workstation and had M$ Outlook running. Problem symptoms: lmtpd cored receiving email imapd cored when the user connected lots of messages in /var/log/maillog referring to: master[2438]: process 2482 exited, signaled to death by 7 higher than normal system load Problem solution: remove the user's seen file at /var/lib/imap/user/?/$USER.seen no restarting of cyrus required after removing the broken file Environment: Fedora Core 5 (current patches) # rpm -qa | grep cyrus cyrus-imapd-devel-2.3.1-2.8.fc5 cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.21-10 cyrus-sasl-2.1.21-10 cyrus-imapd-utils-2.3.1-2.8.fc5 cyrus-sasl-ldap-2.1.21-10 cyrus-imapd-2.3.1-2.8.fc5 cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.21-10 Mike ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
