From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 15 12:18:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blue.gerhardt-it.com (gw.gerhardt-it.com [204.83.38.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4948437B400 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:18:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from git2000 (unknown [192.168.100.101]) by blue.gerhardt-it.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 62920FD94; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:18:15 -0600 (CST) From: "Scott Gerhardt" To: , , Subject: RE: Sendmail POP Lock Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:19:04 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <029f01c1b65a$cc76e3a0$6f00000a@z0.inoc.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'll post this back into the list as it was just a few days ago: > > If you are running Qpopper (POP3) this is a common problem. This > happens when someone tries to pop into the same account when another > session is already active. Or possibly the qpopper session crashed > leaving the poplock file undeleted. > > There is no fix. You simply don't have multiple pop sessions. In > practice, it's not a good idea to do so. > Applications accessing Mailbox style mailboxes must have exclusive access to prevent conflicts and corruption (all messages in one big file). The Maildir format (used by Qmail and Postfix) is less prone to corruption since each message is stored in a separate file. You could try running Postfix with Courier's pop3d server. _________________________________ Scott Gerhardt, P.Geo. Gerhardt Information Technologies _________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message