[Dovecot] dovecot and ntp: Fatal: Time just moved backwards

[Eugene]

Hi Timo,

> Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 09:40:20 -0700
> From: Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>
>
> On Jun 8, 2009, at 11:40 PM, Arno Wald wrote:
>
>> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>> Hmm. I suppose I could change Dovecot master so that if no imap/
>>> pop3 processes have been created yet, it would silently ignore the
>>> clock move.
>>
>> Also it might be an idea to just restart dovecot instead of
>> completely stopping it. If this happens to often in a certain time
>> interval it still could be stopped to avoid too many restarts in a
>> loop if there is an error situation somehow.
>
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards bottom answers this. A
> restart isn't much better than just ignoring the time change.

But really, all this leads is that admin has to detect the dovecot 
termination and simply go and restart it manually -- after some bad 
thoughts.
I think that a config option to restart silently (or simply kill all 
connected imap/pop3 instances) would be quite reasonable.
Basically it is the only thing I don't like in Dovecot... and was even 
planning to hack the time check out of the code =))

Best wishes
Eugene