Dovecot dies with "dovecot: Fatal: Time just moved backwards by 6 seconds."

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Issue

  • A dovecot dies with the following messages.

    dovecot: Time just moved backwards by 6 seconds. This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself now. http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMoved
    Backwards
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • dovecot

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