There are a good number of file locking problems that have been fixed since 2.1.0 was released, I recommend you upgrade, since that's exactly what this sounds like (some process 'lost' a lock on the mailbox in question).
-Rob On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Gary Mills wrote: > Can anyone shed some light on this problem? We run a moderate-sized > Cyrus installation, using Cyrus v2.1.0pre. One user complained that > he hadn't received mail for about three days. The sendmail log had > errors like this: > > Jan 8 15:16:18 electra sm-mta-q56m[8632]: [ID 801593 mail.info] h07FxquQ027552: >to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=1+05:16:25, xdelay=01:00:00, mailer=local, >pri=1831035, relay=localhost [[UNIX: /var/run/imap/lmtp]], dsn=4.4.2, stat=Deferred: >Connection timed out with localhost > > The recent files in his INBOX directory looked like this: > > drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 512 Jan 8 11:35 sent-mail > drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 512 Jan 6 14:49 Trash > -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 67144 Jan 6 10:23 cyrus.cache.NEW > -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 1980 Jan 6 10:23 cyrus.index.NEW > drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 1024 Jan 5 21:38 Sent > -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 148362 Jan 5 21:38 216. > -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 67144 Jan 5 21:38 cyrus.cache > -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 1980 Jan 5 21:38 cyrus.index > -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 27904 Jan 3 15:35 215. > > When I tried to run `reconstruct' on the mailbox, it blocked trying > to do an fcntl() lock on the `cyrus.header' file. I found many `lmtpd' > and `imapd' processes that had opens on that file. I had to kill all > of them to get `reconstruct' to run, after which I had to restart Cyrus > master because IMAP clients were unable to connect. > > What might have caused all of this? > > -- > -Gary Mills- -Unix Support- -U of M Academic Computing and Networking- > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
