From: "John C. Amodeo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I got a weird problem here and I wanted to see if anyone else has
> experienced similar problems.
>
> My current config is 2.0.16 / RH 7.1 / 2.4.3-12 kernel
>
> Once in a while, when a user goes to copy a message from their Inbox to
> a subfolder, it locks their IMAP session, After closing the mail client
> (Webmail or Netscape Messenger), when they log back in, now they cannot
> delete any messages in any of their folders, and, in addition, they
> cannot write to any folders under their account. Furthermore, Postfix
> starts deferring mail because it cannot write to the users Inbox either.
>
>
> It is almost as if Cyrus, or some other process, has a "lock" on the
> account. The only way to rectify the problem is to restart the master
> process, which wouldn't be a problem if everyone else didn't get kicked
> off of the system when you do.
>
> Has anyone experienced a similar problem? Does anyone have any ideas?
>
Yes, we have experienced a similar problem w/1.6.24. The problem that we
experience is that deliver has locked the users Inbox, during an attempt to
deliver a message. Then when a user tries to delete/move a message, the
server waits indefinitely, due to deliver has the mailbox locked. The move
operation does cause the message to be copied to the target folder, but the
delete operation on the original folder doesn't complete.
The only way we have been able to solve this problem was to kill all deliver
processes.
You might want to try and kill all lmtpd processes in 2.x, the next time
this occurs.
NOTE: 1. We run deliver in lmtp mode on 1.6.24
2. This problem occurs very infrequently for us (seen only 2 times in
past year).
Scot
