[Dovecot] Return (revenge?) of the "pop-lock".

Hello,

The users here have been migrated to the new mail system with dovecot 0.99.10.5 (Debian package) on the backends. Storage is maildir, only pop3 access for now. I see very seldom occurrences (compared to the session wide pop lock of qpopper on the old system) like this:

Jun 16 14:35:52 mb01 pop3(user@gol.com): Timeout while waiting for release of exclusive fcntl() lock for index file /mail/spool/mb01/9ef/f73/af.user/.INBOX/.imap.index

These are people with slow connections and at least one large mail in the box, with their client aborting w/o terminating the session properly.

I presume the timeout for this is hardcoded, as all the config parameters for timeouts are mbox related, rite?

Regards,

Christian Balzer

Christian Balzer Network/Systems Engineer NOC chibi@gol.com Global OnLine Japan/Fusion Network Services http://www.gol.com/