On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 11:30:20AM +0100, Cyril Servant wrote: > Hello, > > I wonder why is a "fatal" function called when the statuscache backend > can't be opened. This makes the process terminate (then fork again, > then terminate, then...). This is not logical, because statuscache > is... a cache ! Cyrus should work fine without (and actually, it does, > with the patch attached). > > As we use an sql backend for statuscache, when the sql server is not > available, we prefer that cyrus-imapd works without cache than a total > breakdown.
You have a good point :) I've committed a patch for it to CVS. I also protected the rest of the functions by not setting statuscache_dbopen and by testing for it at the start of each entry point. Bron.
