[Dovecot] locking problem

[myron]

On Feb 1, 2012, at 3:24 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On 1.2.2012, at 16.09, myron wrote:
>
>> 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?
> ..
>> mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
>
> How large is the /var/mail/<user> mbox file?


-rw------- 1 <user> mail 15M 2012-02-01 14:46 /var/mail/<user>

Can I just zero out the 3 files in that directory.

6240 Jan 31 13:26 dovecot.index
165888 Jan 31 14:39 dovecot.index.cache
  25100 Jan 31 14:42 dovecot.index.log