Since we moved to exim for local deliveries on our Unix systems, I'm getting a
number of users whose mailboxes are locked -- exim logs "local_delivery
transport deferred: failed to lock mailbox /var/mail/username (fcntl)".
In our case, /var/mail is NFS-mounted on the mail delivery system (Sun, Solaris
2.5) from our fileserver (DEC Alpha, OSF 3.2 + ADVFS). Most users use Pine to
read their mail. I can usually clear the lock by su'ing to the affected
usernames and running CDE's dtmail but this is tedious, so I need to fix the
problem.
Any ideas what's causing this? NFS problems? Mail client? Exim? No-one else
seems to be suffering this problem, as far as I can tell.
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David Osborne email: David.Osborne@???
Cripps Computing Centre tel: +44 (0)115 951 3397
(and Department of Geography) fax: +44 (0)115 951 3358
University of Nottingham
Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK Web: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~cczdao
