Ken
Thanks for the quick fix, which has solved the IDLE problem.
I should probably point out though that this fix does not address the
problem I reported last week. It seems to me that under different
circumstances the copy command could still fail in an unsafe way, leading to
loss of messages. (Not that I'm expecting you to be the one to fix it!)
Cheers, John
--
John Holman
Head of Central Servers Team
Queen Mary. Universitly of London
UK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Murchison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "John Holman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: IDLE problem
>
>
> John Holman wrote:
> >
> > (Follow up to last message)
> >
> > In fact the IDLE problem is quite general. If the client has used the
IDLE
> > command, it seems that the imapd process will be killed and the
connection
> > closed with "signalled to death by 14"
> > whenever more than about 50 seconds passes between commands sent by the
> > client. Unless I misunderstand something, this shouldn't be happening.
> >
> > eg
> >
> > ...
> > 4 IDLE
> > + go ahead
> > done
> > 4 OK Completed
> >
> > <wait 50 seconds>
> >
> > server closes imap connection and reports "signalled to death by 14"
>
> John,
>
> Forget about my last message, here is the fix. This was stupid, I don't
> know how I missed this. I must have changed the signal disposition at
> the last minute without testing it. I apologize for any problems that
> this caused. This fix (and a similar one for idle_idled.c) is in CVS
> and will be in the next release.
>
> Ken
>
> diff -c -r1.1 -r1.2
> *** idle_poll.c 2000/12/14 19:26:48 1.1
> --- idle_poll.c 2001/01/16 16:54:26 1.2
> ***************
> *** 88,92 ****
> void idle_done(struct mailbox *mailbox)
> {
> /* Remove the polling function */
> ! signal(SIGALRM, SIG_DFL);
> }
> --- 88,92 ----
> void idle_done(struct mailbox *mailbox)
> {
> /* Remove the polling function */
> ! signal(SIGALRM, SIG_IGN);
> }
>
> --
> Kenneth Murchison Oceana Matrix Ltd.
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