>> >> Switch to Maildir and the problem goes away. The issue is that the mbox >> file is read-locked when the first message is read. And since the POP3 >> client most likely just keeps reading messages for the entire session, >> the mbox file kept read-locked all the time. Can't really be fixed >> without some larger redesign (which is really not worth it). > > We see this as well with mbox and pop3 accesses where some pop3 clients > do not logout (iphone's are the worst offenders) for 30-90 minutes it > seems. Timeout settings in dovecot.conf do not seem to help. procmail > backs up waiting to get access to the inbox to deliver mail. > > Is there a global timeout we can set that will close any pop3 connection > after say 15 minutes? Maildir is not an option currently for many of our > servers that use openwebmail, which does not support maildir currently. > > Not sure if these pop3 sessions are in a loop, just keeping the > conenction open for a reason, etc... but they do not seem to do anything > after the initial check besides not logging out... > > Rob > That is one reason I am going to get rid of openwebmail. I am not too crazy about having too many processes access the mailspool at the filesystem level. They should have just coded it as a IMAP client.
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