[Dovecot] 1.0.beta6 released

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Apr 12 15:57:22 EEST 2006


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.

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