pop3d unstable

[Eugene Chow]

Stephen Carr wrote:

>Dear Eugene
>
>Could I ask if a pop3d process is left "running"?
>
Sorry... I don't get what you mean by "left running".

If master is killed, the processes that it spawned will still remain and 
will not die immediately until after a predefined period of time passes 
without any activity. That's what I observed; at least in my experience. 
So if I have to restart master for some perculiar reason, I'll kill off 
all the other processes it spawned rather than wait for it to timeout 
and die a natural death.

Hope I answered your question.

>I had a similar problem using cyrus-imap 2.0.16 on Solaris 2.5 and by 
>changing the following at the bottom of service.h in the master  directory the 
>problem vanished.
>  
>
Never used 2.0.16 before. So I can't comment on it.

>enum {
>    MAX_USE = 1,
>    REUSE_TIMEOUT = 10
>};
>
>What happens is a new pop3d process id launched for each pop3 
>connection.
>
>Regards
>Stephen Carr
>