Hi,
I'm using Qpopper 4.0.4 with Sendmail 8.12.6 and are using the mbox type of
mail delivery as opposed to maildir. And yes, I've been told about the
advantages of maildir over mbox.
We have one user (among several hundred mail accounts on this box) who is
having a persistent pop lock problem. Our usual advice: "Wait 20 minutes
before you try to pick up mail again" doesn't help in her case because her
pop lock just doesn't go away. When it happens, I've seen the pop lock hang
around for hours. I have had to resort to removing it so as to allow this
user to be able to pop her mail again.
Then a few days later she gets a persistent pop lock again.
I have verified (to the best of my ability) that she isn't continuing to pop
mail during this time (does continuing to attempt to pop mail while there is
a pop lock cause the pop lock to stick around longer? I've wondered about
that).
This particular user sometimes pops mail using Outlook Express, and
sometimes accesses her mailbox while she is at work using our Webmail
interface. But I don't see why that would cause a problem for this one user
as we have quite a few users who use Outlook Express at times and web mail
at times.
At present, her mailbox is completely weird (I've not seen a pop lock quite
like this before:
-rw-rw---- 1 beddy mail 219495 Feb 7 13:53 beddy
-rw------- 1 beddy mail 17 Feb 7 21:45 beddy.lock
-rw-rw---- 1 beddy mail 0 Feb 7 21:45 .beddy.pop
In the past, removing .beddy.pop has restored her ability to pop mail again
(for awhile) although, of course, she lost the mail that was tied up in that
file, but I sauspect now that her mailbox (the beddy file) has become
corrupted somehow, because if I now remove beddy.lock and .beddy.pop, these
files get recreated as soon as she attempts to pop mail again.
What might cause this? Any solutions?
Thanks,
Lisa Casey
