LMTP Timeout

[Simon Matter]

> I have Exim using LMTP to deliver into Cyrus version 2.2.8 on a single
> server.
> The setup has been working without problem for several years.
>
> I have discovered several users where Exim gets an LMTP timeout when
> trying to
> deliver to them. If any of the users try to login an IMAP session it
> hangs.
>
> If I use cyradm I can
>
> info user.<username>
> lam user.<username>
> cm user.<username>.folder
> sam user.<username>.folder cyrus c
>
> But if I try any of
>
> sam user.<username> cyrus c
> dm user.<username>.folder
> dm user.<username>
>
> it hangs and I have to delete the IMAP session. I have tried closing cyrus
> down
> and re-starting it and that does not help.
>
> There is nothing in the IMAPD.log
>
> The Exim logs show the LMTP timeout problems started on 13 October but
> went
> unnotices for quite some time. I have been working on this for several
> days and
> have drawn a blank. I have several users who cannot work and I can't even
> delete them to start afresh!

1) Check your available diskspace, and make sure that the disks never run
full.

2) Try to reconstruct the mailbox in question, something like
su - cyrus -c "/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/reconstruct -r user.<username>"

>
> Any suggestions please?
>
> Phil.
> ---------------------------------------
> Phil Chambers (postmaster at exeter.ac.uk)
> University of Exeter
>
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