stuck lmtpd processes

[Andrew Morgan]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Rob Siemborski wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Andrew Morgan wrote:
>
> > And that write lock was held by an imaps process.  Once I killed the imaps
> > process, all the lmtpd's got unstuck.  Unfortunately, I realize now that
> > it would have been nice to get a backtrace on that imaps process to see
> > why it hadn't released the lock...  :(
>
> Actually this is a known issue when a client hangs up in the middle of an
> append.  Its sort of unclear why the session doesn't always time out
> properly, but:
>
> https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=1270
>
> -Rob

Hmmm, did you just add comment #1 to it?  :)

It is good to know that I can get myself out of this easily enough, but
I'd love to see this fixed in Cyrus v2.1.16 (hint, hint).  :)

	Andy