Re: [Dovecot] Mailbox locking problem with iphone and POP3

2009-10-02 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Oct 2, 2009, at 9:30 PM, Mark Hedges wrote: Maybe Apple can fix the problem with the iphone client? Hrmm, I have no idea how to report it. Do you know what exactly the "disconnects uncleanly" means? Can you get some tcpdump logs? Either one of these should be fine: a) Send POP3 "QUIT"

Re: [Dovecot] Mailbox locking problem with iphone and POP3

2009-10-02 Thread Mark Hedges
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote: > Are you using mbox or maildir? With mbox I guess this is > more or less expected. The solutions I can think of: mbox > a) Switch to maildir. Nope our webmail depends on mbox. > b) Shrink pop3 idle timeout from 10 minutes to one minute > or so. CLIENT

Re: [Dovecot] Mailbox locking problem with iphone and POP3

2009-10-02 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 18:08 -0700, Mark Hedges wrote: > This is an old thread, but I'm having the same problem. > > pop3_lock_session=no > > The iphone checks mail, and disconnects uncleanly. Then > there is a delivery attempt. I have procmail logging on, > and procmail sits there trying to loc

Re: [Dovecot] Mailbox locking problem with iphone and POP3

2009-10-02 Thread Mark Hedges
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Mark Hedges wrote: > > The iphone checks mail, and disconnects uncleanly. Then > there is a delivery attempt. I have procmail logging on, > and procmail sits there trying to lock the spool file until > the timeout is reached and it overrides the lock. > > This causes the er

Re: [Dovecot] Mailbox locking problem with iphone and POP3

2009-09-30 Thread Mark Hedges
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 10:47 -0500, Bill Dunn - VCI > Internet Services wrote: > > I have a problem I can't seem to fix. I have dovecot > > configured to do POP3 with plain text authentication > > using a MySQL database. I am using Dovecot 1.0.7 with > >

Re: [Dovecot] Mailbox locking problem with iphone and POP3

2009-08-07 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 10:47 -0500, Bill Dunn - VCI Internet Services wrote: > I have a problem I can't seem to fix. I have dovecot configured to do > POP3 with plain text authentication using a MySQL database. I am using > Dovecot 1.0.7 with fcntl locking. So you're using mbox format? > My

[Dovecot] Mailbox locking problem with iphone and POP3

2009-08-03 Thread Bill Dunn - VCI Internet Services
I have a problem I can't seem to fix. I have dovecot configured to do POP3 with plain text authentication using a MySQL database. I am using Dovecot 1.0.7 with fcntl locking. My problem has been when an iPhone/iPod checks email. The iPhone/iPod doesn't disconnect with a TCP FIN packet a