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== Courier IMAP and FAM problems == | == Courier IMAP and FAM problems == | ||
If you installed Courier-IMAP and find that it seems to lock up and timeout | If you installed Courier-IMAP and find that it seems to lock up and timeout | ||
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resources and imapd will stop responding. Your email client will give an error | resources and imapd will stop responding. Your email client will give an error | ||
of timeout while connecting. You will see that "netstat -n" will show | of timeout while connecting. You will see that "netstat -n" will show | ||
− | hundreds of lines something like | + | hundreds of lines something like these: |
Active UNIX domain sockets (w/o servers) | Active UNIX domain sockets (w/o servers) | ||
Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path | Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path | ||
− | unix 2 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED | + | unix 2 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 11420 @/tmp/fam-vpopmail- |
− | unix 2 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED | + | unix 2 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 11423 @/tmp/fam-vpopmail- |
− | unix 2 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED | + | unix 2 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 11427 @/tmp/fam-vpopmail- |
Reinstall Courier-IMAP. Run ./configure as normal, but before you run make edit | Reinstall Courier-IMAP. Run ./configure as normal, but before you run make edit |
Latest revision as of 16:10, 28 January 2007
Courier IMAP and FAM problems
If you installed Courier-IMAP and find that it seems to lock up and timeout client connections after it has been running for a long period of time (depending on load) then you might be having a problem with FAM. The following examples are from a Qmail Rocks installation, but the basic idea should apply to any installation of Courier.
The problem is that Courier tries to use FAM even if the service is not running. For example, RedHat Enterprise Server 64-bit does not start FAM by default, but imapd will still try to open connections -- these connections never close and the socket descriptors never time-out or get recycled. You run out of resources and imapd will stop responding. Your email client will give an error of timeout while connecting. You will see that "netstat -n" will show hundreds of lines something like these:
Active UNIX domain sockets (w/o servers) Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path unix 2 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 11420 @/tmp/fam-vpopmail- unix 2 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 11423 @/tmp/fam-vpopmail- unix 2 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 11427 @/tmp/fam-vpopmail-
Reinstall Courier-IMAP. Run ./configure as normal, but before you run make edit
/downloads/qmailrocks/courier-imap-4.0.2/maildir/config.h
comment out "#define HAVE_FAM 1". Now start the make process and continue the rest of the installation as usual. Unfortunately, the configure script does not have an option to build without FAM and it does not detect that the system is not running FAM.
Courier seems to work fine without FAM on a medium load system (in my case, about 40 users).