On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Josh Endries wrote:
I've been trying to resolve a POP lock problem I'm having for a week
now. :( I've looked through the archives and online and haven't figured
out how to fix it. A client's mailbox got locked and is now somehow
stuck in that state. There's no TCP connection open anymore, nobody is
accessing the box, and it's been many days since it last worked
correctly but imapd still says it's locked and won't let anyone log in.
How can I remove/reset the POP lock? I can't find a "lock" file anywhere
to remove. Would restarting imapd do it? The server machine itself?
Are talking about errors of the form:
-ERR [IN-USE] Unable to lock maildrop
This means a process has taken out a fcntl() or flock() lock on the
cyrus.header file associated with that mailbox. Probably a POP process
given that they take a lock and hold it for the duration of the login
session, but it might be an IMAP process which has got stuck. lsof is a
useful utility for working out which processes have opened a given file.
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