[Dovecot] thunderbird not receiving new incoming mail: Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log file

[Stan Hoeppner]

On 6/11/2011 11:34 PM, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am running dovecot 1.0.10 and thunderbird 3.1.10 for OSX 10.6.7
> and I am finding that new imap mail is not coming into my INBOX folder
> on thunderbird.
> 
> there is an error message  "Timeout while waiting for lock for
> transaction log file" in the syslog
> 
> here is my INBOX .imap dir
> 
> ~/mail/.imap/INBOX$ ls -l
> total 75100K
> -rw------- 1 blah blah  1462024 Jun 11 20:17 dovecot.index
> -rw------- 1 blah blah 75153408 Jun 11 20:17 dovecot.index.cache
> -rw------- 1 blah blah     1464 Jun 11 20:17 dovecot.index.log
> -rw------- 1 blah blah   195812 Jun 11 17:23 dovecot.index.log.2
> 
> what is the best way to troubleshoot this problem?

As always, use deductive reasoning.  If it was working fine, and
suddenly stopped working, something obviously changed.  Find what has
changed.

What does your MTA tell you about these messages that are not hitting
the inbox?  Is your MTA still delivering mail to Dovecot?

BTW, always post full error lines from your logs, not the partial junk
you inserted above.  We need to see the daemon and time stamp.  That
lock timeout could be generated by any number of deamons.  For
troubleshooting mail issues you'd typically look in your mail log, not
in syslog.

-- 
Stan