[Dovecot] stopping dovecot

[Kai Schaetzl]

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:42:09 +0200:

> This may be a silly question but how to correctly stop dovecot and be sure 
> that it's possible to start it again?

depends on your operating system. /etc/init.d/dovecot stop should work on 
most Linuxes.

> I have imap-login processes staying arround and occupying port

Ah, well, that's a different question! Stopping dovecot won't kill the 
processes with actual logins. -> killall imap-login

Kai

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