Kinda looks like a port probe. telnet to the pop3s port and then use the telnet escape key to quit the connection. If you'd like to submit a patch to reduce the level of logging for these errors to something a little more sane (like DEBUG), I'm sure it would be accepted through Bugzilla. :wes On 12 Jan 2009, at 12:00, anebi@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > we have installed cyrus-imapd-2.3.7-2 on Centos 5. Everything work > very > well, but last days i noticed that we get an error related with pop3s. > The error is this: > > Jan 4 05:45:20 herm pop3s[21598]: pop3s failed: > Dynamic-IP-cr20011xxxx.xxxx.xxx [200.xxx.xxx.xxx] > Jan 4 05:45:20 herm pop3s[21598]: Fatal error: tls_start_servertls() > failed > Jan 4 05:45:20 herm master[3688]: process 21598 exited, status 75 > Jan 4 05:45:20 herm master[3688]: service pop3s pid 21598 in BUSY > state: terminated abnormally > > I tested pop3s with pop3test tool and also with a real user that was > configured to use pop3s. It is login in successful and i tried to > reproduce this error, but i still cannot do it. > > I checked my configuration files related with cyrus-imap. > Everything is > ok. Imap/Pop3 with TLS and Imaps/Pop3s are working good. > > Why this happen and how to solve this problem? > > Do i need to increase some number of processes for pop3 or something > different? > > > I read in the net a lot of comments about this problem, but i still > can't find a solution for this. > > I will be happy if someone give me solve direction to troubleshoot > this > problem and try to solve it. ---- 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