At 9:59 AM +0000 4/22/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Im running qpopper 4.03 on a linux box. >During fetching mail, my connection froze, and my mail server still >holds the lock file .user.pop.
That is not normal. Qpopper cleans up the temp file when it goes away (unless it is killed and doesn't have a chance). Are you sure there is no Qpopper process active for the user? If you are sure there is no Qpopper process active, yet the .user.pop file remains, then either the process was killed, or there is a bug in Qpopper that fails to clean up under whatever circumstance caused the session to end. Can you reproduce this? Does it happen for all users? One thing to try is to apply the patches that Clifton posted here recently. >No email can't be "popped" so far for this account (ok).. but when >is it going to work again ? Qpopper automatically times out an old session, so have the user try again in fifteen minutes, and all should be well. Qpopper will pick up the mail from the .pop.temp file and use it, so nothing should be lost. >Must I set up a cron job (which ??) to check lock files and correct them ? No, this is not required. >Is there any kind of automatism build in in popper to correct this ? Yes. Qpopper cleans up when it exits, and Qpopper reclaims locks after a timeout.
