On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 14:09 -0400, Eric Sammons wrote: > Hi, > > So I've been through google and the dovecot source and have not yet found > a reasonable explanation for the 'Timeout while waiting for lock' error. > My customer's configuration is utilizes mbox with the following mbox > configs. > > [snip] > pop3_lock_session = yes
What it means is that you have this enabled and user tries to log in with POP3 while another POP3 session already exists and isn't dying after 5 minutes. Some possible reasons: - User using multiple POP3 clients? - User using dialup and connection dies while downloading messages? - User has huge mailboxes that take a long time to download? In any case setting pop3_lock_session=no gets rid of these errors, although that then violates POP3 RFC.
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