On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 09:48 -0700, David Jonas wrote:
> >> > >> Is there an obvious way around this? I know I could somehow merge the > >> changes into the running sqlite db but that undermines the simplicity of > >> the design I have. Maybe a patch to reopen the db if it's replaced? Or > >> perhaps I should just switch to a different db format -- that's probably > >> the quickest/easiest solution. Any other ideas? There are about 20k > >> entries to deal with. > > > >> > > the HUP reload method is only available on dovecot 2.0. Make sure > > you're using that version to do that; otherwise, killall dovecot and > > then dovecot. wrong (I didnt see this post else I'd reply directly, likely eaten by spam rules, I dunno) HUP works in some cases, but can cause dovecot to exit completely in others, the O.P should try killall -USR1 > I should have specified that this is dovecot 1.2.7. The sighup seems to > work just fine except for the effect I've outlined. perhaps time to consider MySQL, and perhaps a later version of Dovecot :) Cheers
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