I believe that the MySQL 4.x client library automatically reestablishes connections. We're also using a couple of MySQL specific functionality in DBMail 2.x, so it'll soon be a non-issue.
Is there a quick and clean fix that can be applied to the 1.2.x tree? Aaron ""Christian G. Warden"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail-dev mailing list > Dbmail-dev@dbmail.org > http://twister.fastxs.net/mailman/listinfo/dbmail-dev > --