On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Odhiambo G. Washington wrote:
> This is probably an FAQ but I haven't seen it happen before. Suppose there
> is a lock on a mailbox (by a POP session, most probably), is Exim supposed
> to bounce e-mails arriving at that particular moment?
No, it will defer delivery. If the defer goes on long enough, the
message will eventually be bounced.
> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
>
> sbgroup@???
> (generated from mail@???)
> failed to lock mailbox /var/mail/sbgroup (fcntl):
> retry timeout exceeded
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
It's kept on finding the mailbox locked for a very long time.
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