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

[Timo Sirainen]

On Jun 9, 2009, at 1:54 PM, Harlan Stenn wrote:

> Timo wrote:
>> On Jun 9, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Eugene wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Or the admin actually permanently fixes the time.
>
> This is usually a startup issue and the fact that so many OSes get  
> this
> wrong and that dovecot complains about it so strongly points out this
> "rough edge".

And I already mentioned in this thread that I could try to get that  
fixed:

> 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.