[imp] hoe to kill an IMP connection

Mark Chitti mchitti@openworldinc.com
Fri, 02 Feb 2001 18:48:11 -0500


I would think sending a killall -TERM imapd and a killall -HUP inetd would be
a brutal but effective way, though I've not tried this.  You will note that
Outlook is one of the few IMAP clients that has this problem.  Netscape and
others happily swipe the connection when they need it.


Mike Coughlan wrote:

> A user in the office has left her IMP connection open at home.  It is
> polling IMAP, and stealing the connection away from Outlook, giving an
> annoying message box. Does anyone know of a way to kill that session on the
> server?  It's a good trick from an IMP admin to know, though perhapse it is
> not possible.
>
> Versions
> ---------------------------
> RH6
> IMP, Version 2.2.3
> apache-1.3.12-2
> php-3.0.17-1.6.2horde1
> php-imap-3.0.17-1.6.2horde1
>
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