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bjseiler

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I have not been able to pull down my email from Outlook or log into the webmail application for about 2 days now. This is the error when my Outlook errors.


Task 'boberdoo.com - Receiving' reported error (0x8004210E) : 'Your mailbox is temporarily unavailable because another e-mail message is being delivered to it or another mail application is accessing it. The server responded: -ERR [IN-USE] Mailbox in use'

I have SSH'd in and seen there is 1.6MB of email to retrieve. I have stopped/restarted exim/pop3 and even rebooted but I am still getting the error. This is on a FreeBSD 5.2.1 box.

Does this error look familiar to anyone? Is it possible my email file on the server is corrupt some how and if so, are there any Exim tools for "cleaning" it?
 
Just a little kick from my part:

I've got the same error with one of my clients.. what could this be?
 
I wish I had an intelligent answer for you......but the problem just "went away" a few hours after I posted this. No idea why.
 
bjseiler said:
I wish I had an intelligent answer for you......but the problem just "went away" a few hours after I posted this. No idea why.
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bummer :)

It looks like a poplock busy error but doesn't quite seem te be one.

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Kick me and call me dumbo....
Client was checking the same account twice with it's mailclient (eudora)
Removed the double mail config. All's fine.
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Exim can't "clean" it because exim has nothing to do with POP.

It definitely sounds like a POP lock error; I don't know where BSD keeps POP lock files.

A pop lock file is a real file and will survive a reboot.

Jeff
 
Well, you can't just go in and kill them, because they serve an important purpose.

What you can do is delete them when your clients tell you they're having the problem.

Jeff
 
but I'm using this in my working place and there is 24 pcs checking same email how can I let them check without a problem ?

is that possible ?
 
The lock file is specifically to prevent more than one client from checking the email at a time.

Since checking email involves rewriting the mailbox file, if you allow multiple people to check the file at close to the same time you'll have a corrupted file and lots of missing mail. I think that would be a worse problem.

You can probably alleviate the problem by switching to Dovecot.

Jeff
 
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