[Dovecot] MySQL server has gone away

[Paul B. Henson]

On 1/13/2012 10:29 AM, Mark Moseley wrote:

> connection prior to this, is the auth worker not recognizing its
> connection is already half-closed (in which case, it probably
> shouldn't even consider it a legitimate connection and just
> automatically reconnect, i.e. try #1, not the retry, which would
> happen after another failure).

I don't think there's any way to tell from the mysql api that the server 
has closed the connection short of trying to use it and getting that 
specific error. I suppose that specific error could be special cased as 
an immediate "try again with no penalty" rather than considered a failure.


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