[Dovecot] Time just moved backwards error even with ntpd

[Charles Marcus]

On 1/19/2008 Luigi Rosa wrote:
> On one hand we have Dovecot that kill itself until someone kicks it 
> back on, on the other hand we have just some errors on the logfile.
> 
> Well, IMHO at least there could be a configuration parameter that 
> allows me to choose between a service that kills itself and some 
> errors on a logfile and maybe a temporary service failure.
> 
> Each SysAdmin could weight the consequences and choose the option 
> he/she thinks is more appropriate to his/her server. 

Accurate time is CRITICAL for a mail server (and most any other server 
as well).

I think the current behavior is reasonable. Fix the actual problem 
(server time being incorrect at boot time), and this is not an issue.