[Dovecot] 2.1: timeout waiting for lock?

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:
> On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 11:44 +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> > Mar 15 09:46:11 postamt dovecot: pop3(username): Error: Couldn't open INBOX: Timeout while waiting for lock
> > Mar 15 09:46:11 postamt dovecot: pop3(username): Couldn't open INBOX top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0
> > 
> > during that time, I wasn't able to access the mailbox using imap. I
> > then issued
> 
> Maildir?

Yep.
 
> > doveadm kick username
> > 
> > and all over sudden the mailbox was accessible (via IMAP)
> 
> So one of them had the INBOX locked. Do you have pop3_lock_session=yes?
> 

Yes.
# makes Dovecot lock the mailbox for the whole session
pop3_lock_session = yes

Shouldn't be doing this I guess?

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