On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 08:19:28AM -0400, John M. Brown wrote: > Ok...I reconfigured the server from scratch...here are the specs: > > MySQL 3.23.x > DBMail 1.2.7b > Postfix MTA > > I still get the imap server losing the connection to the database. It > works after a restart...and will run most of the day, but it looks like if > it goes unused for several hours it actually drops the connection. > > For example, I check my mail via IMAP at 11:00 pm and then when I get up > in the morning around 7:00 am. The server works all day (from 7 to 11) > b/c I check it frequently throughout the day, but every morning when I > wake up it says that the "_auth_query()" has lost it's connection > (connection dropped). > > Any suggestions? Would upgrading to the 2.0rc fix this problem?
Perhaps using mysql_ping() would help. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/mysql_ping.html xn