Imap error

[Guust]

ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server.
Query: SELECT "INBOX"

This is the error what I get from squirrelmail, normal webmail just gives me: login failure/wrong password(password is correct, also changed it and retryed it).

This is only with 1 user....
please help me out, thanx.

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

Right after generating that error, check:
/var/log/messages
/var/log/maillog

John

[prashantbhushan]

Hello,
I am also facing the same problem.

ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server.
Query: STATUS "INBOX" (MESSAGES UNSEEN RECENT)

I have only 5MB mailbox size.

maillog shows :

Command stream end of file, while reading line user=abc@xyz.com.





Originally posted by DirectAdmin Support
Hello,

Right after generating that error, check:
/var/log/messages
/var/log/maillog

John

[Icheb]

I've gotten this error before, after I tried to manually update the imap daemon. But after going back to the supplied daemon in DA, everything worked again.

Are there any kind of strange things in the username?

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

It may be related to full quotas for the username. Check
quota -v usernameto see what his current usage is. If dovecot can't write it's files, things probably won't work correctly.

John

[nobaloney]

Yep. It's always been overlimit when we've seen the problem.

Here's what we've found:

We don't have quota running on /var but we do have it running on /home.

When we switched to Dovecot, all the mail got moved from /var to /home.

And all of a sudden a lot of users were overlimit.

Jeff

[vandal]

so you are saying the current mail system is not properly tracking users email boxes? I don't understand how before the upgrade some mail was not being considered in the quota.

Most systems should have the quota running on / correct?

[nobaloney]

I didn't say that because I don't know what you've set up. Our systems only enforce the quota on /home; that's part of the linux quota system.

DA counts the email no matter where it is, but doesn't enforce quotas; it leaves that up to the quota system.

Jeff

[vandal]

ahh ok thanks for clearing that up. I was just confused.