[Dovecot] Mailbox is locked?

[Kyle Wheeler]

Hello,

I recently upgraded from Dovecot 1.1.8 to 1.1.14, and I've started to 
get errors I never got before. Specifically, I'm getting "Mailbox is 
locked, will abort in xx seconds" errors. My mail client (mutt) will 
just sit there in the background (presumably in IDLE) and randomly 
will show this error (I THINK it has something to do with delivering 
new messages to the folder; I use the dovecot LDA).

Nothing else about my configuration has changed, just the version of 
dovecot. Does anyone know what could be causing these? I assume it has 
something to do with the index files, but... Nothing interesting shows 
up in the log files. How do I get rid of these error messages? Or even 
begin tracking them down?

For what it's worth, mail is stored on the server in Maildirs, and the 
lock_method is fcntl, the mbox_write_locks is fcntl (I don't set 
mbox_read_locks).

~Kyle
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For to accuse, requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to 
excuse; and condemnation, than absolution more resembles justice.
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