cyradm setinfo shutdown

[Gareth Ansell]

Hi,

Could anyone answer my question please.  We recently had to take our
mailserver offline for routine maintenance, and we decided to use the
cyradm setinfo shutdown facility to facilitate this.

>From the documentation it would appear that this should stop any new
users connecting by presenting them with a message.  However, in
practise it prevented pine from seeing any mailboxes, and killed
evolution stone dead.  Not once did I see any sight of the error message
I had set.

The only time I saw the message was I telnetted to port 143 and tried
logging in manually.

Is this normal behaviour or did I set something up incorrectly?

Also, is there a command within cyradm to unset the information set with
the setinfo command.  I could not find one, and when it was time to
bring the mailserver back up I could not remove the shutdown message, I
had to root about manually in the file structure until I found the
relevant file to delete.

Is there an easy way to do this?

Any help much appreciated.

Gareth Ansell

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