* This one time, at band camp, Shannon said:
>
> Hi people,
>
> I nedd a little help. I am trying to get my pop3 server back up and
> running here at home, after it decided to die today. However I am
> getting a failing error on login. I have looked through my logs and am
> getting
>
> Error opening or locking INBOX user=
Possible solution from http://www.rain.org/fom-serve/cache/21.html
When you retrieve e-mail from RAIN networks, the system creates a
lockfile. A lockfile prevents corruption of your e-mail. When you get
this error, it means that you tried to retrieve your e-mail sooner than
2 minutes from your last e-mail retrieval attempt. You have not given
the system a chance to unlock your mailbox. In fact, e-mail retrieval
should not be quicker than 5 minute intervals between retrievals.
If this is not the case, check for lock files in case its been left
locked.
>
> I am assuming this is a permissions problem but I am not sure exactly
> what the permission need to be on the mail spool files. 777? 477? 4777?
Mailboxes, usually, are 660 for user:mail (eg tgreen:mail). You
certainly DO NOT want any group access and the execute bit is not
required as these are not scripts/binaries to be run.
>
> any help would be great.
HTH - if not
http://www.google.com/search?q=error+opening+or+locking+inbox
has 1529 other pages that might :-)
Greeno
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