4 Apr
2008
4 Apr
'08
5:18 p.m.
On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 12:37 +0200, Søren Schrøder wrote:
The pop3 process is un-killable, and I end up stacking up pop3 processes from the user, as well as deliver to the user. Not healthy.. I was under the impression that POP3 would exit when a lock is set, preventing more than one pop3 processes pr. user, but it doesn't seem to be the case.
If you can't kill a process even with kill -9, the problem is with the kernel and Dovecot can't do much about it.
How about trying without fcntl locks:
lock_method = dotlock
Also have you read http://wiki.dovecot.org/NFS?