Refreshing Stale Configuration Information

Some programs, once started, run indefinitely (for weeks or months). An example of this kind of program is a server that listens continually for incoming mail connections, enqueuing received messages. Site-specific configuration information is loaded at initialization. In the case of these long running programs, the information can become stale due to changes to configuration information, such as rewrite rules or channel definitions. Subsequent calls to mtaInit() do not accomplish this task. A program must exit and restart in order to ensure that all configuration information is reloaded.