[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wolfgang Zenker) writes:

> If your user maildirs are on a nfs mounted file- system, forget
> about the version conflict and move your maildirs somewhere
> else. Mailspools and similar stuff on nfs mounted filesystems tend
> not to work; not least because file locking on nfs is generally
> unreliable or simply nonexistant.

qmail's "Maildir" format *is* NFS-safe and was designed specifically
to work around the NFS-maybe-lock problems. Works well and allows
scaling. 

Other mailbox formats, including olde style UNIX /var/mail/username or
~username/Mail are not NFS-safe so this could be your problem.

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