dovecot - Nov 2010 - What is that error all about: "Timeout leak: 0x4bd230"

Hey dovecot-users,

we are running dovecot 1.2.15 and are seeing some odd errors in our
logfiles:

--- dovecot.log ---
2010-11-22 12:34:56 imapserver local2.warning dovecot dovecot:
IMAP(username at domain.tld): Timeout leak: 0x4bd230
--- /dovecot.log ---

Those errors only appear if connections are done using IMAP (via Horde's
IMP Webmail). With POP3 we don't see any of those errors.

We actually don't see anything in general being broken or wrong (no
errors on the webmail machines, no user complaints), but these errors
are constantly being logged.

Where would one start to look for the cause?



Thanks for your help,
Regards


Christian

On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 13:45 +0100, Christian Rohmann wrote:
> we are running dovecot 1.2.15 and are seeing some odd errors in our
> logfiles:
> 
> --- dovecot.log ---
> 2010-11-22 12:34:56 imapserver local2.warning dovecot dovecot:
> IMAP(username at domain.tld): Timeout leak: 0x4bd230
It's not really anything to worry about. Dovecot just notices at exit
that the code didn't remove one timeout handler. It would be good to fix
it though. You could see what function that address points to with gdb:

gdb /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
x 0x4bd230