[Dovecot] Feeature requests (server failure handeling)

[Andrew Hutchings]

Hi Timo/Guys,
Suggested features (after we had a nasty NFS disk failure):
1. Have reject connections after load of X (like exim, sendmail, etc...), when 
the NFS started to fail it took a long time to access the mailboxes, average 
load on the dovecot servers was 30-40 (until the NFS turned the disk r/o and 
all connections were getting kicked out).
2. Have a dead server response setup.  Freeserve/Wanadoo do this by setting a 
flag in their software which accepts all POP connections regards of user/pass 
and says there is no mail (users don't panic and flood the phones for a while 
then).  Not sure how you would do this with IMAP though.

Maybe these to features could even be linked in some way.  Anyway, I'll leave 
it to you to mull over, flame, etc...

Regards
Andrew
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Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing)
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