On 11/27/2012 12:40 PM, Frank Bonnet wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm facing a boring problem for few accounts ( less than 10 over 2000 )
> on my freebsd 9.0 mailhub , see below the error message I get in maillog
>
>
> Nov 27 17:59:45 mail postfix/local[11988]: 3Y9n2B5TH9zYmgf:
> to=<x...@esiee.fr>, orig_to=<x...@esiee.fr>, relay=local, delay=10175,
> delays=10156/0.02/0/19, dsn=4.2.0, status=deferred (cannot update
> mailbox /var/mail/xxxx for user xxxx. unable to lock for exclusive
> access: Resource temporarily unavailable)
>
It means that mbox is locked by another process such as a client.
The message is deferred ("status=deferred") and will try again later.
This is one of the shortfalls of mbox format.
Brian
