"Jayanta" <jayanta(_at_)vedika(_dot_)com> writes:
Hello Philip,
Actually I coud n't figure out what is causing the problem ....my problem is
suppose a pop user is downloading his mails from the server through Dialup
line,now if the connection broke suddenly on the way of his downloading
mails ,again after reconnect if he tries again receiving an error message :
"-Error could not get locked Mailbox is in use "
he has to wait even for a substantially long period of time then he could
able to doanload his mails again.
Would appreciate any assistance on this.
This has nothing to do with procmail but rather is a side-effect of
your choice of POP server. Some POP server, including the one running
at your site, lock the mailbox for the entire duration of the
connection. As a result, if the connection is dropped, the mailbox
won't be unlocked until the TCP/IP connection times out or the POP
server's idle timer goes off.
You can probably change the later at the cost of making it difficult or
impossible for people on slow lines to read and delete their mail.
Upgrading to the latest version of whatever POP server you're running
may help. If that doesn't do it, then you'll need to either a) tell
the user to get a more reliable connection, or b) toss that software
and find a POP server that doesn't keep the mailbox locked.
BEWARE: changing POP servers may change the UIDLs for all the stored
messages which will make every POP client think messages that it left
on the server are new and redownload them. This will piss off all your
users if you don't warn them first, and probably even then.
Philip Guenther
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