[Dovecot] stopping dovecot

[Chris Wakelin]

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> On Saturday 26 July 2008, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On Jul 26, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
>>>> I have imap-login processes staying arround and occupying port
>>> Ah, well, that's a different question! Stopping dovecot won't kill the
>>> processes with actual logins. -> killall imap-login
>> It does kill everything. 
> 
> "It" means what? 
> 
> kill -TERM `cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid` ? That doesn't kill imap-login 
> processes.

What do you have for the "shutdown_clients" option?

I think the imap-login processes will hang around if there are SSL or 
proxy connections through them (but perhaps they shouldn't be 
"listen"-ing for new connections?).

Chris

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