bug#32631: the Dovecot service stops working

[Clément Lassieur]

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Clément Lassieur <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Clément Lassieur <address@hidden> skribis:
>>>
>>>> Sometimes the Dovecot service stops working, which is difficult to
>>>> notice.
>>>
>>> When it “stops working”, does the Shepherd service go down?  Does “herd
>>> status dovecot” shows that it was respawned?  Is the dovecot process
>>> still around?
>>
>> The dovecot process is still around, yes.  I has happened several times
>> already (maybe 5), but I only recently identified it as a bug.  I'll
>> investigate more when I encounter it again, but it's not easy to do
>> because I'm not the only user of the mail server.
>
> So it doesn’t look like a Shepherd issue, right?

No, it looks like a dovecot service issue :-)