I don't understand this.  flock doesn't create any files, and there should
be locking between imapd and the MTA.

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Clive McDowell wrote:
> hope you enjoyed your break. I figured this one out shortly after I sent
> the query. We are using Exim as our MTA software and it uses flock and
> fcntrl by default. On the busy service machine the lock files created by
> flock were not being removed hence no access via a mail client to the
> mailbox. I was able to resolve the problem by configuring exim to use
> only fcntrl.

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