[Dovecot] imap + unmounted home disk

[Timo Sirainen]

On 12.3.2007, at 16.40, T. Horsnell wrote:

> dovecot 0.99 still (RHEL4), I'm sorry to say.
> The config is for mbox's to live on the user's home disk.
> If the user tries to make an imap connection when
> his home disk is unmounted, various permission denied
> messages are logged, as expected, but then the imap
> process seems to hang around instead of aborting.
> The result is that eventually the imap process
> limit is reached, and even those users whose home
> disks are correctly mounted, cant get at their mail.

Check with strace what they are doing? I can't really think of  
anything why they would hang.

http://wiki.dovecot.org/Debugging/ProcessTracing
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