file locking is used in several places throughout vpopmail However the only place I have ever heard of it causing problems is inside the roaming user functions.
Usually you would need to have a fair number of POP3 logins happening before you run into locking problems. Perhaps consult your POP3 logs and look to see if you are recording a high number of POP3 connections. The problem is exacerbated when you are using CDB auth backend rather than MySQL backend. MySQL removes some (but not all) of the file-based operations for the roaming users code. Michael. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 10:07 PM Subject: [vchkpw] Intermittent pop3 authentication failure > Hi folks, > > I have recently built a qmail/vpopmail server for a client of mine, to handle > mail for the hundreds of domains that they host for their customers. That > said, the server is currently under a very light load as only a few domains > have been set up on it, and each domain only has a small number of mailboxes. > > The server is based on the following software: > > FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p13 > qmail-1.03 (from FreeBSD ports) > vpopmail-5.3.28 (from FreeBSD ports) > > I have the pop3 service running as follows: > > /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -v -c 200 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \ > mail.domain.co.uk /usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw \ > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir > > Since the server was set up, my client has been seeing intermittent pop3 > authentication failures, where valid username/password pairs are not > accepted. This state usually persists for a few minutes and then clears, > allowing authentication. > > Today, however, my client got a different error. When I tried to login via > pop3 using a test account, I got this error message (in Outlook Express): > > ----- > There was a problem logging onto your mail server. Your Password was > rejected. Account: 'XXXXXX mail server', Server: 'xx.xx.xx.xx', Protocol: > POP3, Server Response: 'File busy try again later!', Port: 110, Secure(SSL): > No, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC92 > ----- > > > I had originally wondered if the auth failures were related to the vchkpw > process - perhaps the open-smtp file was too busy. This latest error seems to > reinforce my suspisions. > > Can anyone make any suggestions here, either with what the problem might be, > or what to do to find out what the problem is? > > I can provide additional information on the set up if it is required. > > Many thanks in advance. > > Jason Mann > >
