* Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi>: > On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 12:01 +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > > > > Mar 15 09:46:11 postamt dovecot: pop3(username): Error: Couldn't open > > > > INBOX: Timeout while waiting for lock > > > > Mar 15 09:46:11 postamt dovecot: pop3(username): Couldn't open INBOX > > > > top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 > > > So one of them had the INBOX locked. Do you have pop3_lock_session=yes? > > > > Yes. > > # makes Dovecot lock the mailbox for the whole session > > pop3_lock_session = yes > > > > Shouldn't be doing this I guess? > > If you do it then a single POP3 session can keep the mailbox locked > pretty much forever. If you don't do it, you're violating POP3 RFC, but > I don't think anyone really cares about that..
Indeed. All I care about is that the user gets his/her mail. Which he didn't. I disabled it. -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebra...@charite.de | http://www.charite.de