Re: pop3d unstable

[Eugene Chow]

Stephen Carr wrote:

Dear Eugene

Could I ask if a pop3d process is left "running"?

Sorry... I don't get what you mean by "left running".

If master is killed, the processes that it spawned will still remain and will not die immediately until after a predefined period of time passes without any activity. That's what I observed; at least in my experience. So if I have to restart master for some perculiar reason, I'll kill off all the other processes it spawned rather than wait for it to timeout and die a natural death.

Hope I answered your question.

I had a similar problem using cyrus-imap 2.0.16 on Solaris 2.5 and by changing the following at the bottom of service.h in the master directory the problem vanished.

Never used 2.0.16 before. So I can't comment on it.

enum {
MAX_USE = 1,
REUSE_TIMEOUT = 10
};

What happens is a new pop3d process id launched for each pop3 connection.

Regards
Stephen Carr