[Dovecot] 2.1: timeout waiting for lock?

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:
> On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 12:01 +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
> > > 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?
> 
> If you do it then a single POP3 session can keep the mailbox locked
> pretty much forever. If you don't do it, you're violating POP3 RFC, but
> I don't think anyone really cares about that..

Indeed. All I care about is that the user gets his/her mail. Which he
didn't.

I disabled it.

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