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Courier-IMAP / XINETD Keeps Restarting

KrazyBob

Regular Pleskian
I have a server that courier-imap / xinetd keeps restarting on, seemoingly for no reason. The onlything I note when I check is what appears to be a rogue Blackberry that is attempting to access IMAP on all web sites. It shows up as a popuser on port 143 all day and night. Their abuse department has yet to reply to three complaints. The same with MyCingular. All day and night; one web site to the next, IMAP.

But even after blocking the IP's I still get annoyed by constant Plesk alerts that the service is down. When I go to check Plesk has already restarted the service.

Here are the messages:

Code:
Nov 16 00:57:01 server102 xinetd[13595]: Swapping defaults
Nov 16 00:57:01 server102 xinetd[13595]: readjusting service imap
Nov 16 00:57:01 server102 xinetd[13595]: readjusting service imaps
Nov 16 00:57:01 server102 xinetd[13595]: readjusting service pop3
Nov 16 00:57:01 server102 xinetd[13595]: readjusting service pop3s
Nov 16 00:57:01 server102 xinetd[13595]: readjusting service ftp
Nov 16 00:57:01 server102 xinetd[13595]: readjusting service poppassd
Nov 16 00:57:01 server102 xinetd[13595]: readjusting service smtp
Nov 16 00:57:01 server102 xinetd[13595]: readjusting service smtps
Nov 16 00:57:01 server102 xinetd[13595]: readjusting service submission
Nov 16 00:57:01 server102 xinetd[13595]: Reconfigured: new=0 old=9 dropped=0 (services)
Nov 16 00:57:01 server102 xinetd[13595]: Starting reconfiguration
Nov 16 00:57:01 server102 xinetd[13595]: Swapping defaults
Nov 16 00:57:01 server102 xinetd[13595]: readjusting service imap
Nov 16 00:57:01 server102 xinetd[13595]: readjusting service imaps
Nov 16 00:57:01 server102 xinetd[13595]: readjusting service pop3
Nov 16 00:57:01 server102 xinetd[13595]: readjusting service pop3s
Nov 16 00:57:01 server102 xinetd[13595]: readjusting service ftp
Nov 16 00:57:01 server102 xinetd[13595]: readjusting service poppassd
Nov 16 00:57:01 server102 xinetd[13595]: readjusting service smtp
Nov 16 00:57:01 server102 xinetd[13595]: readjusting service smtps
Nov 16 00:57:01 server102 xinetd[13595]: readjusting service submission
Nov 16 00:57:01 server102 xinetd[13595]: Reconfigured: new=0 old=9 dropped=0 (services)

I have already adjused imapd and increased connections, but this doesn't seem to be the iseue.

Code:
MAXDAEMONS=400
MAXPERIP=250
 
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