Re: [exim] failed to lock mailbox

On 16 May 2005 at 11:35, John Hixson wrote about

    "[exim] failed to lock mailbox":

| Hi Guys,
| I am seeing this error for certain users repeatedly:
|
| defer (-9): failed to lock mailbox /path/to/john/doe/domain/name/inbox
| (lock file)

Looks like you are using mbox format? Only one process can write to
these files at a time, so you are probably looking at a conflict
between exim and your POP and/or IMAP server (which is?). Guess: Are
these users keeping an IMAP connection open all the time, or have
very large inbox files and POP very frequently?

- Fred