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 lock the spool file until > the timeout is reached and it overrides the lock.
Are you using mbox or maildir? With mbox I guess this is more or less expected. The solutions I can think of: a) Switch to maildir. b) Shrink pop3 idle timeout from 10 minutes to one minute or so. CLIENT_IDLE_TIMEOUT_MSECS in src/pop3/client.c c) Implement some kind of unlocking feature so Dovecot unlocks mbox file after client has been idling for a few seconds. Seems to me like that would be too much trouble to be worth it.
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