Thanks, Sergey. It looks like I could solve my problems by setting
mandatory locking and then a very short time out. So if the client is
actively using the server then it would stay alive and locked, but
otherwise it would get unlocked. This would also solve the problem with
orphan processes. (I didn't mean to say that mandatory locking was
causing the orphan processes, but only that if the orphan processes
hold locks, you would have a problem.)
However, the timeout doesn't seem to be working. I said
program imap4d {
mode inetd;
mandatory-locking {
enable yes;
}
timeout 60;
... }
Then I connected to the IMAP server, logged in, and waited several
minutes, but it did not disconnect me. Does it only work in daemon
mode?
Thanks for your help.
Ken
