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<p>Ruben Safir schreef op 2019-02-07 19:26:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 05:10:04PM +0100, Tijl via dovecot wrote:
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">Hi Timo, <br /><br /> Thank you very much for replying with an instant solution!<br /><br /> Suggestion for future release: a setting in the configuration to<br /> enable/disable the automatic instance_update_now action and/or set the<br /> timeout by the user.<br /><br /> In the meanwhile I can use the recompiled version with this code change.<br /> Problem solved for me. <br /><br /> Regards,<br /> Tijl <br /><br /> Timo Sirainen schreef op 2019-02-07 15:59:<br /><br />
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">On 2 Feb 2019, at 6.44, Tijl <<a href="mailto:dovecot@odie.be">dovecot@odie.be</a>> wrote:<br /><br />
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<br /> Postfix can do this without that added infrastructure.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Could you explain how this can be accomplished with Postfix?<br />At the moment I don't use Postfix (I use Dovecot only to store mail archives) but I'm OK to install it, just for this.<br />Thank you for your advice already!</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0"><br /> You'd need to patch src/master/main.c instance_update_now() to remove: <br /><br /> to_instance = timeout_add((3600 * 12 + i_rand_limit(60 * 30)) * 1000, <br /> instance_update_now, list); <br /><br /> I'm not quite sure why I wrote such code to update it continuously.</blockquote>
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