skiplist vs db format

Rob Siemborski rjs3 at andrew.cmu.edu
Mon Jan 26 12:24:12 EST 2004


On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Andrew Brink wrote:

> Just curious but what is the correct way to kill an imapd or pop3d
> process?

It should be perfectly safe to kill a *connected* imapd.

The only problems arise when you kill an *idle* IMAPd.  (Or, in
resource-constrained conditions where the OS might decide to "help" by
doing this itself)

-Rob

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