On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 10:02 +0100, Henrik Frisk wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I had this problem with my N810 too: whenever my N900 is online and
> checks for mail regularly it seams as if it is blocking the account.
> I'm using fetchmail on my laptop to retrieve mail and it complains
> that:
>
> fetchmail: Can't get lock. Mailbox in use
> fetchmail: lock busy! Is another session active?
> fetchmail: Lock-busy error on [email protected]
> fetchmail: lock busy on server error while fetching from [email protected]
>
> This is really annoying. Anyone here has an idea what might be causing this?
Are you using POP3 by any chance ?
POP3's spec has a mandatory lock, so only one client can connect at the
same time.
But you shouldn't use POP, especially if you have multiple clients you
should use IMAP.
Xav
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