Another time i had this problem was when the database to be authenticated against wasn't the localhost. If the network was clogged up (long ping replies can check this), i would have such failures.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 7:51 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Sporadic mail auth failures On 8/21/05, Wouter van der Schagt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had this problem when my database was corrupt. You can check this > with > > cd /var/lib/mysql/vpopmail > myisamchk *.MYI > > if any is corrupt, just add -r > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Erickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 6:34 PM > Subject: [vchkpw] Sporadic mail auth failures > > > > Hi we've been battling a very strange problem with our server for awhile > > now. Periodically when a user tries to send mail (using smtp auth), or > > check his/her pop3 box, we get auth failures. What happens is youll have > to > > auth 3-4 times before it'll actually go through (even though you are > > entering the same credentials every time). It is very frustrating. Upon > > examining the logs here is what we are getting: > > > > Aug 21 10:08:04 mail authdaemond: vmysql: sql error[3]: Lost connection to > > MySQL server during query > > > > Now I know the username/pw work to connect to the database because it does > > eventually auth. The mysql server is on the same machine as well. > Anybody > > have any ideas what this could be indicative of? > > > > Mysql server 4.1.8 > > Vpopmail 5.4.10 > > > > > > Thanks, > > David > > > > > > I don't use authdaemon, but I saw something on google in the authdaemonrc file about not having enough authdaemon child processes causing intermittent auth failures...something to check -- Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED]
