Re: [cobalt-users] Help User Email Problem

[Jim Euliano <jime@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>There was a problem logging onto your mail server. Your Password was
>rejected. Account: 'Dave Steel', Server: 'www.weareradio.com', Protocol:
>POP3, Server Response: '-ERR /var/spool/mail/.dsteel.pop lock busy!  Is
>another session active? (11)', Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error:
>0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC92

Stale lock file.  Telnet into the server and log in as root.  In the pop
mail directory indicated, /var/spool/mail... you will find a file called
.dsteel.pop.  You must delete this file. 

When a user is in the process of checking mail, the server sets that file
to prevent another computer from simultaneously checking the same mailbox.
When you disconnect from checking mail, it is supposed to delete that
file... but sometimes it doesn't and you have to delete it manually. 

Its a linux fowl up and happens only once in a while.  If it happens all
the time, you have other problems.

Jim