On 16-Dec-1999 Wolf-Guido Lutz wrote: > this is probapbly a stupid question, but I am quite new to exim.
> does anyone know what the .useraccount.pop-files are for that are
> generated from time to time in the /var/spool/mail directory?
> They seem to be created during the SMTP connection, and get deleted
> again, but sometimes they stay. How do I have to handle them?
They're symptomatic of you running the Qualcomm popper - those files
are POP session lockfiles, just there to make sure that no-one else
accesses your mailbox while you're reading it. Don't worry about them!
Graeme
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Graeme Fowler
Network Officer, Infrastructure & Networks Group
Loughborough University Computing Services
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