Re: [cobalt-users] maillock errors... only rebooting fixes it as of right now.

[Diana Brake <diana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:35 PM 10/29/01, you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are getting some strange problems on our raq2.   Rebooting temporarily
> corrects the problem, but it always returns.   These are the errors we
> receive in the /var/log/maillog file.  I delete the .pop and .lock files
> from the /var/spool/mail directory but they immediately return as soon as
> the person rechecks their mail.   Even if their mail file is empty. ...

<big snip>

Hi Allen,

I have a RaQ2 that mysteriously started showing this exact same behavior 
also. It's fixed now and has been for sometime. In my case, is was caused 
by a faulty upgrade for qpopper that started the whole thing, and another 
upgrade (later) from Cobalt was supposed to fix it.

I would hazard a guess that you are short some patches...only guessing 
though so if you're up to date, we'll have to look elsewhere for a fix.

I fixed mine with a temporary patch for qpopper that has since disappeared 
from the Cobalt list of patches. But if you make sure to get all the 
updates starting from the bottom of the page, this problem should be fixed.

Let me know if you need more detailed info. (check to see what version of 
qpopper you're running - after patches it should be 3.0.2)

Diana  <---who may try to upgrade to qpopper 4.0...it supports TSL/SSL...:)
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