Hi all, I've been having a problem with qpopper for quite a while now with qpopper version 4.0.5 and SuSE linux 7.1 with kernel 2.4.21 (SMP two processors).
The problem is that, from time to time, a users mailbox gets "locked" - the .USERID.pop file is there and never goes away. To fix the situation I concatenate the .pop file contents to the end of the users mail file (after the time delay between the mailbox locking and the user reporting the problem there is normally more emails awaiting download in their /var/mail/USERID file) and then I rename/delete the .USERID.pop file - that fixes things for a while again. I notice that this problem seems to happen with users using Outlook 2000 (typical I know - I personally use fetchmail to get my email into a local Linux box and have never experienced this problem). Still - should qpopper gracefully cleanup in the event of a email client disconnection problem? I am using qmail as the mail receiving agent. qmail delivers mail into the ~/Mailbox file have I have symbolic links to /var/mail/USERID files so that qpopper can access the mail files. I have used this configuration before with Solaris 8 and didn't have these problems at all - I'm only seeing it now with the Linux setup (although I may be running a newer version of qmail & qpopper now - I'm not sure). Does anyone know what steps I should take from here to try to locate this problem? Thanks very much for your help, Derek -- Derek Conniffe Rivertower Limited Tel: +353 1 201 0180 Fax: +353 1 201 0085 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.rivertowerhosting.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.583 / Virus Database: 369 - Release Date: 10/02/2004
