Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:19:04 -0600 From: "Scott Gerhardt" <scott@gerhardt-it.com> To: <rblayzor@inoc.net>, <jacks@sage-american.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Sendmail POP Lock Message-ID: <KPEMLBLEMPMHGLJOCDEGKEMADOAA.scott@gerhardt-it.com> In-Reply-To: <029f01c1b65a$cc76e3a0$6f00000a@z0.inoc.net>
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> I'll post this back into the list as it was just a few days ago: > > If you are running Qpopper (POP3) this is a common problem. This > happens when someone tries to pop into the same account when another > session is already active. Or possibly the qpopper session crashed > leaving the poplock file undeleted. > > There is no fix. You simply don't have multiple pop sessions. In > practice, it's not a good idea to do so. > Applications accessing Mailbox style mailboxes must have exclusive access to prevent conflicts and corruption (all messages in one big file). The Maildir format (used by Qmail and Postfix) is less prone to corruption since each message is stored in a separate file. You could try running Postfix with Courier's pop3d server. _________________________________ Scott Gerhardt, P.Geo. Gerhardt Information Technologies _________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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