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

Matthijs Kooijman wrote:

but I think it's not so trivial to handle this properly, without risking data loss (as Timo pointed out, immediately restarting is not really helping, since you'll still be running in the past.

It would be interesting (as I do not know anything about the dovecot internals) why the current time is so important for dovecot. In my simple thinking the mail server has to manage a set of mails that all have a time stamp. Why is the time that the mail server is running in important for this management?

Thanks, Arno