Hi Davide,

[EMAIL PROTECTED] <> wrote on Thursday, February 02, 2006 5:14
PM:

> What happen with a kill is that partially written messages
> can linger in
> the spool/mailbox. Messages won't be lost in any case, but
> garbage could
> be created by a kill. You could send a SIGINT, wait 3-4
> seconds and then a
> SIGKILL. This reduces the probability of garbage messages,
> but it does not
> completely eliminate it.

I thought of something in the shutdown process that kills open smtp/pop3
connections. The problem here is that XMail sometimes takes ~10mins to
shutdown gracefully and then we've to use `killall XMail`. After that, XMail
shuts down immediately.

-- 

Sonke

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