[Dovecot] stopping dovecot

[Chris Wakelin]

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
>> What do you have for the "shutdown_clients" option?
> 
> shutdown_clients: no
> 
>> I think the imap-login processes will hang around if there are SSL or
>> proxy connections through them (but perhaps they shouldn't be
>> "listen"-ing for new connections?).
> 
> It would be good if existing clients were not disconnected but starting 
> dovecot would be possible. That's how daemons for other services behave.
> 

It might be worth trying

login_process_per_connection = yes

That way, the login-processes have no need to be "listen"-ing once 
somebody has logged in.

Chris

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