Question ??

[Joseph Brennan]

--On Thursday, October 2, 2008 9:10 -0400 Valentino Sawney 
<vsawney at fit.edu> wrote:

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> Periodically some clients get this error "Mailbox is locked by POP server
> " whenever they try to connect to our frontend mail servers.
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> I am currently running the cyrus murder cluster in production with two
> frontend servers and two backend servers. The error above pops up on the
> backend servers whenever the connection is forwarded to backend .
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> Are there any known fixes for this.
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That's normal, since the POP protocol requires the mailbox be locked
for the duration of a POP session.  People who run two POP clients at
once will see the error message sometimes.

Of course if POP sessions don't quit when the client quits, that's
another story.

Joseph Brennan
Columbia University Information Technology