auth: Error: auth worker: Aborted request: Lookup timed out

Steffen Kaiser
Fri, 30 Jan 2015 08:40:50 -0000

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On Fri, 30 Jan 2015, ML mail wrote:

> I was checking the errors on my mailbox server using "doveadm log
errors" and found that around 2-3 times a day I get the following error:
>
> Jan 29 22:14:43 auth: Error: auth worker: Aborted request: Lookup timed out
>
> Any ideas if this is a bad sign? For example some timeout on my side which
is too low or is it just an aborted connection from the side of the IMAP client?

1st bet is that the SQL query timed out. It is bad sign.

>
> The configuration on my Dovecot mailbox server can be found here:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.dovecot/80823

you should place userdb prefetch before userdb sql. The current order
makes no sense. But this is not the source of your problem.

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Steffen Kaiser
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