[Dovecot] lock file

[Obantec Support]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Timo Sirainen" <tss at iki.fi>
To: "Obantec Support" <support at obantec.net>
Cc: <dovecot at dovecot.org>
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] lock file

Hi Timo

Weird, i found several old pop3 PID's running under the user campusuk_002
UID.
and old procmail PID's for the user.
Killed the first pop3 PID and maillog shows

Aug 19 18:34:09 proteus2a dovecot: POP3(campusuk_002): file_unlock_dotlock()
failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/campusuk_002: No such file or
directory
Aug 19 18:34:09 proteus2a sendmail[15715]: j7HKm2Nv016768:
to=<uk at campusuk.com>, delay=1+20:46:05, xdelay=21:48:46, mailer=local,
pri=120724, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Aug 19 18:34:09 proteus2a sendmail[19370]: j7HKI7c2014841:
to=<uk at campusuk.com>, delay=1+21:14:00, xdelay=20:48:45, mailer=local,
pri=120790, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Aug 19 18:34:09 proteus2a dovecot: POP3(campusuk_002): Our dotlock file
/var/spool/mail/campusuk_002.lock was deleted
Aug 19 18:34:09 proteus2a dovecot: POP3(campusuk_002): file_unlock_dotlock()
failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/campusuk_002: No such file or
directory
Aug 19 18:34:09 proteus2a sendmail[4760]: j7I9FE2p029541:
to=<manzoor at campusuk.com>, delay=1+08:18:55, xdelay=15:48:42, mailer=local,
pri=122721, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Aug 19 18:34:09 proteus2a dovecot: POP3(campusuk_002): Our dotlock file
/var/spool/mail/campusuk_002.lock was deleted
Aug 19 18:34:09 proteus2a dovecot: POP3(campusuk_002): file_unlock_dotlock()
failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/campusuk_002: No such file or
directory
Aug 19 18:34:09 proteus2a dovecot: POP3(campusuk_002): Our dotlock file
/var/spool/mail/campusuk_002.lock was deleted
Aug 19 18:34:09 proteus2a dovecot: POP3(campusuk_002): file_unlock_dotlock()
failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/campusuk_002: No such file or
directory

Where it says "/var/spool/mail/campusuk_002: No such file or directory" ??
it is there i can see it an now its 1MB as there were 16 emails in the
mqueue in sending state but locked out.

Mark