very long cyr_expire at startup and no mail delivery

[Bron Gondwana]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 08:14:02PM -0300, Reinaldo de Carvalho wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Marcus <lists at localguru.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > because of a kernel update I had to restart my server. After the restart
> > cyrmaster was running, but I couldn't connect to imap or pop3 port and
> > sendmail couldn't communicate via socket with cyrus. A "ps ax" showed a
> > running "cyr_expire" process for about 20 minutes. After the cyr_expire
> > process finished everything worked fine again.
> >  Question now: is there a way to avoid such long cyr_expire checks at
> > startup or how to do a check by hand before shutting down the cyrus so a
> > startup would become quicker?
> >
> > System: Debian/lenny
> > Cyrus: 2.2.13-14+lenny3
> > Sendmail: 8.14.3-5+lenny1
> >
> 
> >From Korreio README:
> 
>    6.4 After set expire values cyrus starter is slower
>    ***************************************************
> 
>        By default cyrus is configured in cyrus.conf to run delprune to
>    remove expired messages at startup (START). Then messages will be
>    processed before listen for connections. You should disable delprune
>    at startup and add it to EVENTS:
> 
>        delprune  cmd="/usr/sbin/cyr_expire -E 3" at=0100
> 
>        So messages will be expired at 1pm. all days.

Yeah - that.  Why on earth is cyr_expire in the startup?  EVENTS is the
right place ( actually, we run it out of cron, but that's beside the point )

Bron.