dovecot - May 2005 - imap disconnects on my account only

Talk about personal problems!

I am using dovecot-0.99.13-4.FC2, and everything has been going fine
for months. Earlier this afternoon, Thunderbird's status pane would
say 'Sending authenticate login information...' and I would no longer
receive email.

When I checked with others, they were fine and dandy.

I tried kmail, evolution, and even tried webmail. All had connection errors.

Checking the logs I can see the following:

May 27 14:07:58 mongo imap-login: Login: mitchy [162.84.141.200]
May 27 14:07:58 mongo imap(mitchy): getgroups() failed: Invalid argument
May 27 14:07:58 mongo dovecot: child 3264 (imap) returned error 89

I can see new messages in $Maildir, so it is all about authentication,
which I am completely clueless about as it has been working for as
long as I have had this server.

What steps can I take to debug the situation?

-- Mitch

Just a guess, but have you changed your /etc/groups (or equivalent) file 
today? I'm not a Fedora expert (or dovecot-0.99), though. I think it's 
more likely to be a change in the user/group databases than a change in 
Dovecot.

Best Wishes,
Chris

Mitch Pirtle wrote:
> Talk about personal problems!
> 
> I am using dovecot-0.99.13-4.FC2, and everything has been going fine
> for months. Earlier this afternoon, Thunderbird's status pane would
> say 'Sending authenticate login information...' and I would no
longer
> receive email.
> 
> When I checked with others, they were fine and dandy.
> 
> I tried kmail, evolution, and even tried webmail. All had connection
errors.
> 
> Checking the logs I can see the following:
> 
> May 27 14:07:58 mongo imap-login: Login: mitchy [162.84.141.200]
> May 27 14:07:58 mongo imap(mitchy): getgroups() failed: Invalid argument
> May 27 14:07:58 mongo dovecot: child 3264 (imap) returned error 89
> 
> I can see new messages in $Maildir, so it is all about authentication,
> which I am completely clueless about as it has been working for as
> long as I have had this server.
> 
> What steps can I take to debug the situation?
> 
> -- Mitch

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Christopher Wakelin,                           c.d.wakelin at reading.ac.uk
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Whups, reply-to went to the poster :-/

On 5/27/05, Chris Wakelin <c.d.wakelin at reading.ac.uk>
wrote:
> Just a guess, but have you changed your /etc/groups (or equivalent) file
> today? I'm not a Fedora expert (or dovecot-0.99), though. I think
it's
> more likely to be a change in the user/group databases than a change in
> Dovecot.
I have added myself to another group (for a website directory) but
have not changed my default group or anything like that.

-- Mitch