I have one user who can't read his e-mail. The /var/log/mail.log file
has this statement.

dovecot: IMAP(<user>): Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction
log file /users/<user>/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log

I tried killing the imap daemons and removing the lock file, but it keeps coming back. Any idea what else to do?

This is the dovecot file:

dovecot -n # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-28-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth-client mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix

--myron

Myron Kowalski MoCoSIN Network/Systems Administrator Moravian College myron@moravian.edu (610) 861-1441