stuck lmtpd processes

[Rob Siemborski]

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

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