[Dovecot] auth socket goes away on reload

[Noel Butler]

On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 09:48 -0700, David Jonas wrote:


> >>
> >> Is there an obvious way around this? I know I could somehow merge the
> >> changes into the running sqlite db but that undermines the simplicity of
> >> the design I have. Maybe a patch to reopen the db if it's replaced? Or
> >> perhaps I should just switch to a different db format -- that's probably
> >> the quickest/easiest solution. Any other ideas? There are about 20k
> >> entries to deal with.
> >
> >>    
> > the HUP reload method is only available on dovecot 2.0. Make sure
> > you're using that version to do that; otherwise, killall dovecot and
> > then dovecot.

wrong (I didnt see this post else I'd reply directly, likely eaten by
spam rules, I dunno)

HUP works in some cases, but can cause dovecot to exit completely in
others,    the O.P should try killall -USR1


> I should have specified that this is dovecot 1.2.7. The sighup seems to
> work just fine except for the effect I've outlined.

perhaps time to consider MySQL, and perhaps a later version of
Dovecot :)

Cheers

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