12 Apr
2006
12 Apr
'06
3:57 p.m.
On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 00:41 +1200, Reuben Farrelly wrote:
Upgrading apache/sendmail/postfix/bind/qmail all requires a full service restart of the master and child processes, I'm not sure why there are complaints when dovecot just takes on the same behaviour.
The difference is that IMAP connections are long living and users often get an error message when the connection dies. Web, SMTP, DNS and SMTP doesn't really have that problem unless you happen to send the request exactly at the time when the service is down.