[Dovecot] Dovecot 'suicide'

[Luigi Rosa]

I have a Dovecot installation on a Fedora 4.
With the last update from Dovecot RC10 to Dovecot RC27, the daemon 
kills itself every night with this error:

Mar 17 05:23:11 mail dovecot: Time just moved backwards by 6 seconds. 
This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill m
yself now.

The error appears just after the night maintenance script executes a 
ntpdate syncronization

ntpdate is version 4.2.0a at 1.1196-r


Well, 6 seconds are little more than a blink in human perspective, 
even if it is a long time for a computer point of view. Couldn't be 
possible to add a configuration option to avoid the suicide?

Any other option other than suicide is better, because there could be 
situations of really unattended servers.





Ciao,
luigi

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