[imp] hoe to kill an IMP connection

Brent J. Nordquist bjn@horde.org
Fri, 2 Feb 2001 18:18:30 -0600 (CST)


On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Mark Chitti <mchitti@openworldinc.com> wrote:

> 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.

That won't work... IMP doesn't keep a persistent connection to the IMAP
server as other mail clients do.  It caches some information to improve
performance, and opens/closes an IMAP connection as it needs to.  The key
is to remove the PHPLIB session for that user, which is the persistent
part.

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