On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 01:39:03PM +0100, Zazell Kroeske wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm new to this list, but I have quite an urgent matter which I need to > solve. > > If one of the users on my mail server tries to fetch its mail, I see the > follow error show up in the maillog: > > Dec 14 13:08:34 cobalt4i in.qpopper[7293]: rzoeteman at xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): -ERR Error updating primary drop. Mail left in > temporary maildrop (28) > > The server is an old cobalt RAQ server (4i) running qpopper 3.0. > This user is unable to fetch all of the emails that are waiting for him. > > Can anyone tell what this error means, since even Google hasn't got any > useful results.
I found lots of Google hits for "Error updating primary drop", but they were not all useful. Check whether there would be a problem copying the user's mailbox to a temporary file and back on the same file system. Either a disk space problem or some other problem [bad blocks?]. This is just a guess. -- Joe Yao ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This message is not an official statement of OSIS Center policies.
