On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 10:47 -0500, Bill Dunn - VCI Internet Services wrote:
I have a problem I can't seem to fix. I have dovecot configured to do POP3 with plain text authentication using a MySQL database. I am using Dovecot 1.0.7 with fcntl locking.
So you're using mbox format?
My problem has been when an iPhone/iPod checksemail. The iPhone/iPod doesn't disconnect with a TCP FIN packet and it leaves the mailbox in a locked state and prevents the user's desktop from checking email. I have tried changing the file locking method and other config file options without any luck.
Do you have pop3_lock_session=no?
This is an old thread, but I'm having the same problem.
pop3_lock_session=no
The iphone checks mail, and disconnects uncleanly. Then there is a delivery attempt. I have procmail logging on, and procmail sits there trying to lock the spool file until the timeout is reached and it overrides the lock.
This causes the error "timeout waiting for input from local during Draining Input" in sendmail, which is a generic error that means the delivery process or subprocess generated warning output on stderr.
(Incidentally does anyone know how to get access to procmail's stderr output?)
I've tried a number of different lock combinations. Nothing seems to help. Mail eventually gets delivered, though, so it's not a huge deal at the moment. I don't know how it behaves when the iphone tries to connect again while the box is still locked.
Mark