Joe DeBattista wrote:

Hi,
We're running Qpopper 4.0.5 on a solaris machine. We have a webmail product
called Emumail that let's a user pick up their mail from our solaris machine.
We have had intermittent problems where the user's incoming mail suddenly
disappears.

Are you sure it's not in /var/mail/.gnelson.pop?
That's where qpopper creates a copy of the mailspool when interacting with the client. If something goes wrong, qpopper usually leaves the file there and continues to complain of a pop lock until you clear it.
It depends on how you are running qpopper too, of course, since some modes are not as 'safe' as others.


Ken A
Pacific.Net


Not just one or two messages, but everything that was in
/var/mail/their_username. In the poplog I have, I noticed these messages

Apr  8 14:03:39 itsa qpopper[12807]: [ID 702911 local0.notice] gnelson at
itsa.ucsf.edu (128.218.95.23): -ERR [IN-USE] /var/mail/.gnelson.pop lock
busy!  Is another session active? (11)
Apr  8 14:04:03 itsa qpopper[13040]: [ID 702911 local0.notice] (v4.0.5) POP
login by user "gnelson" at (itsa.ucsf.edu) 128.218.95.23
Apr  8 14:04:09 itsa qpopper[13370]: [ID 702911 local0.notice] spool older
than cache file /var/mail/.gnelson.cache

These messages appeared around the time that gnelson lost the mail.  Has anyone
seen this sort of problem?


Joe DeBattista UCSF, ITS INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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