On 16 May 2005 at 11:35, John Hixson wrote about
    "[exim] failed to lock mailbox":

| Hi Guys,
|   I am seeing this error for certain users repeatedly:
| 
| defer (-9): failed to lock mailbox /path/to/john/doe/domain/name/inbox 
| (lock file)

Looks like you are using mbox format?  Only one process can write to 
these files at a time, so you are probably looking at a conflict 
between exim and your POP and/or IMAP server (which is?).  Guess: Are 
these users keeping an IMAP connection open all the time, or have 
very large inbox files and POP very frequently?

- Fred





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