[cobalt-users] Mail problem (POP3)

[Damian Gerow <dgerow@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not subscribed to this list, and because of my current situation, can't be.  So please cc: all responses to dgerow@xxxxxxxxxxxx  Thanks.

About 2 hours ago, our mail system died.  Specifically, whenever we try to retrieve our mail by POP3, we get the message: 

-ERR [SYS/TEMP] maillock error 4: '/var/spool/mail/dgerow'  (where "dgerow" is the name of the user)

At this point, procmail seemed to be taking its sweet time.  I kill -15'ed all the long-standing procmail processes (which only turned out to be 2; once those were gone, all the rest flushed through without a problem).

I haven't made any large changes to the box today, but I did add the SSH packages two days ago.

Can anyone help me?  It's getting a bit difficult reading all my messages with mailx, and I don't think our VP's would quite grasp the concept of a Unix shell...