Re: error in pop.log

When the mail program goes to deliver the message, the mailbox is 
locked to avoid multiple programs concurrently updating the box.

Qpopper attempts to gain control of the mailbox using the locking 
procedure.  If Qpopper is unable to acquire the lock, a number of 
retries is attempted.  If control is not obtained, the error message 
is issued and the Qpopper session is terminated.

Later Qpopper was able to get the lock and the download was completed.

Sounds like the some program acquired the mail lock and then was slow 
about updating the file and releasing the lock.

Butch

At 04:41 PM 9/4/2008, you wrote:
>hi,
>
>this is the first time i see this error - i've been using qpopper 
>for many years on
>lots of different machines. it only has come up one single time:
>
>  -ERR [SYS/TEMP] maillock error 'Max tries exceeded' (4) on 
> '/var/mail/xxx': File exists (17)
>
>what does this mean?
>why the "file exists" ???
>same mailbox was polled 2 minutes later without an error... :-|
>
>thanks
>
>MK
>