On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 03:20:34PM -0000,
Matt James <matt.james@???> is thought to have said:
> Hi,
>
> We house a clients mail server here that runs exim 2.01 soon to be updated
> to version 3.12. Every so often there is a problem logging into the account
> using POP3, it continually asks to re-enter the correct password which I
> know is correct because using telnet with those details and then using pine
> I can log in OK and read the mailbox. The error message I recieve is that
> the mailbox in /usr/spool/mail/user is already in use although I know it
> isn't. Is there an easy way of removing this POP lock to allow access to the
> account ??
>
> Cheers
>
> Matt James
Why are they upgrading to 3.12 rather than 3.13? In any case, this is an
issue with your POP3 daemon not cleaning up it's lock files properly. This
isn't an exim issue.
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Tabor J. Wells twells@???
Fsck It! Just another victim of the ambient morality
