Dovecot smtp won't die!

I have a 2011 Mac mini, 8GB ram, default 10.7.4 server install. Filesharing, OD (replica) and most things work fine.
Recently i've set my sights on getting non-spammy logs, and as such i've started to try to resolve every repeating log message.
Today the message is:
Jun 4 16:22:42 minecraft dovecot[3586]: lda: Error: userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb) failed: Operation timed out
Jun 4 16:22:42 minecraft dovecot[3586]: lda: Fatal: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information.
(every 30 seconds!)
Some poking in the config -
Dovecot SMTP (out/incoming) will not stop, if i stop it it stalls on "shutting down" and after a minute it's running again. All other parts of the server are "stopped".
As a solution i tried to configure the mail server, set it up as if i would start using it. (So it would make all configs and such) then stop the server.
Also i cleared the Mail queue and deleted all account data from the maintenance tab (server admin)
I have deleted the sockets and recreated them.
None of this worked.
Any ideas?

I think i solved it, in part i already did, but i've updated this earlier post - http://meandmymac.net/1470/lion-server-still-broken-mail-this-time/

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2012-10-04 07:54:56:287|DMCPrefsCenter.m:240 -[DMCPrefsCenter defaultConfiguration]|10a260|Info|Cacheing MobileMe Client configuration
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2012-10-04 08:02:41:849|MobileMeRemoteSession.m:130 -[MobileMeRemoteSession initWithDMMemberAccount:configuration:]|10a260|Warning|Failed to validate credentials due to error (null) (null) (FAILED), httpStatusCode:-1, errorType:106 (domain=AYErrorDomain, code=2), transactionState:5, txnId:1668C541-EA1A-44B4-B0BF-323D7A8D5C83, auto-retries=0, manual-retries=0, retrying...
2012-10-04 08:06:12:186|MobileMeRemoteSession.m:130 -[MobileMeRemoteSession initWithDMMemberAccount:configuration:]|10a260|Warning|Failed to validate credentials due to error (null) (null) (FAILED), httpStatusCode:-1, errorType:106 (domain=AYErrorDomain, code=2), transactionState:5, txnId:94051447-7495-4ECF-9AF9-2FC796FC484F, auto-retries=0, manual-retries=0, retrying...
Is anyone else seeing this? Is it a problem that can be stopped?

I don't know. I haven't used anything on MobileMe in months. I did use an iDisk at one time, I used the Gallery, I used all sorts of aspects of MobileMe. I'm not physically going in and using it in any way right now, but apparently something on my system is still trying to do it anyway. How would I figure out how to stop it?

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