Excisting idle connections and changing password

[Bron Gondwana]

Newer Cyrus can kill all connections for a single user with one command, cyr_deny.  It adds an entry to the deny database and kills current connections.

Bron.

On Wed, 22 Feb 2017, at 05:04, Marcus Schopen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Mittwoch, den 22.02.2017, 12:45 +0100 schrieb Paul van der Vlis:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > When I change the password of a user what's logged in using an IMAP
> > idle-connection, how long will the connection "stay"?
> > 
> > My goal is that the user cannot access the mailbox anymore and does not
> > get "new mail".
> > 
> > What I did now is restarting Cyrus and I think all excisting idle
> > connections will be lost and all users have to login again.
> > 
> > So my question is "for the next time".
> 
> I would change the password and just kill the process the user is
> hanging on.
> 
> Ciao!
> 
> 
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