On 14.4.2011, at 10.47, Frank Bonnet wrote: > I use LDA Dovecot 2 with SIEVE as Postfix delivery agent and I > occasionally get such message in syslog. > > info.log:Apr 13 12:39:40 lda(xxxxxxxx): Info: > msgid=<4da484ff.5060...@gmail.com>: save failed to INBOX: Timeout while > waiting for lock .. >> mail_location = mbox:%h/:INDEX=/var/cache/dovecot/index/%u:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
That's the way mbox format works. One IMAP or POP3 client can lock the mailbox for a long time. LDA can either wait longer of fail and let MTA retry the delivery later. The default is: mbox_lock_timeout = 5 mins So apparently the LDA already waited for 5 minutes for the lock. (There is also actually mail_max_lock_timeout setting, but the default is 0 = disabled.)
