Re: [cobalt-users] Strange error in maillog

[Diana Brake <diana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

At 02:49 PM 6/2/2000 -0600, you wrote:
> Has anyone encountered this error in their maillog:
>
> Jun  2 13:19:33 dotnet in.qpopper[25801]: username@[02-106.026.popsite.net]:
> -E
> RR /var/spool/mail/.username.pop lock busy!  Is another session active? (11)
>
> We have a RaQ2 running POP before Relay.  I think it might have something to
> do with that.
>
> Michael Combe

I've seen this message also. This happened to my own account and seems to 
occur most commonly when a user is "POPing" the server and gets 
disconnected suddenly. Upon reconnect,this error may be seen. To fix this, 
I had to telnet to the server, (I accept the slap for not installing SSH 
yet..:)
cd /var/spool/mail
ls -la | more   to verify the presence of the .username.pop file and then 
delete it. As long as it was there, I could not retrieve mail.

I received all my mail, as best I could tell..but it was a bit mangled. One 
message did appear to have been "cut in half", maybe because it was the one 
being retrieved at the time of the sudden disconnect.

I don't believe it has much if anything to do with the pop-before-relay 
feature.

HTH,
Diana
Crest Communications, Inc.		diana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Beautiful Sunny Florida		http://crestcommunications.com/
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