dovecot - Mar 2011 - Dict spams in my Log-File

Hi there,

i use dovecot 2.0.9 with mysql as backend. I've also configured dict to
mysql, but after some time dict spams in my log-file, i don't know why.

Hope someone can help me with this.

Greetings from Germany
Jan P. Greimann


==== mail.log ===[...]
Mar 16 10:29:35 s16 dovecot: dict: mysql: Connected to localhost
(mail_backend)
Mar 16 10:31:35 s16 dovecot: dict: mysql: Connected to localhost
(mail_backend)
Mar 16 10:33:35 s16 dovecot: dict: mysql: Connected to localhost
(mail_backend)
Mar 16 10:35:35 s16 dovecot: dict: mysql: Connected to localhost
(mail_backend)
Mar 16 10:35:45 s16 dovecot: dict: mysql: Connected to localhost
(mail_backend)
Mar 16 10:37:36 s16 dovecot: dict: mysql: Connected to localhost
(mail_backend)
Mar 16 10:39:36 s16 dovecot: dict: mysql: Connected to localhost
(mail_backend)
Mar 16 10:41:35 s16 dovecot: dict: mysql: Connected to localhost
(mail_backend)
Mar 16 10:43:35 s16 dovecot: dict: mysql: Connected to localhost
(mail_backend)
Mar 16 10:45:36 s16 dovecot: dict: mysql: Connected to localhost
(mail_backend)
Mar 16 10:47:35 s16 dovecot: dict: mysql: Connected to localhost
(mail_backend)
Mar 16 10:49:35 s16 dovecot: dict: mysql: Connected to localhost
(mail_backend)
Mar 16 10:51:35 s16 dovecot: dict: mysql: Connected to localhost
(mail_backend)
Mar 16 10:53:35 s16 dovecot: dict: mysql: Connected to localhost
(mail_backend)
[...]

==== dovecot.conf ===listen = *
dict {
  quota = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext
}
!include conf.d/*.conf

==== conf.d/90-quota.conf ===plugin {
  quota = dict:User quota::proxy::quota
}

On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 11:53 +0100, Jan Phillip Greimann wrote:
> i use dovecot 2.0.9 with mysql as backend. I've also configured dict to
> mysql, but after some time dict spams in my log-file, i don't know why.
..
> Mar 16 10:29:35 s16 dovecot: dict: mysql: Connected to localhost
> (mail_backend)
> Mar 16 10:31:35 s16 dovecot: dict: mysql: Connected to localhost
> (mail_backend)
> Mar 16 10:33:35 s16 dovecot: dict: mysql: Connected to localhost
> (mail_backend)
I'd guess it is because dict process gets idle-killed and then after a
while it restarts and has to connect to mysql again. So what you want to
do is:

service dict {
  idle_kill = 1d
}

Or something like that.