imapd's hang when maxchild count is reached

[Sebastian Hagedorn]

-- "Stephen L. Ulmer" <ulmer at ufl.edu> is rumored to have mumbled on 
Mittwoch, 5. Februar 2003 16:57 Uhr -0500 regarding Re: imapd's hang when 
maxchild count is reached:

> Hmmm... what does Sendmail do?  It's got lots of children, but still
> manages to refuse connections when it gets busy (RefuseLA)...  I kinda
> like that behavior.

Yes, but there are potential problems with it. I'm currently in discussion 
with Claus Assmann and the Red Hat support. 8.12.7 under Advanced Server 
has in several cases apparently lost signals in this situation. As a 
consequence sendmail permanently stopped accepting connections after 
delaying them ...
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