| Title: | DIGITAL UNIX (FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1) |
| Notice: | Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference |
| Moderator: | SMURF::DENHAM |
| Created: | Thu Mar 16 1995 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 10068 |
| Total number of notes: | 35879 |
Hi, DU V4.0 Several Eudora Client on PC's . A customer of mine decided to configure his Digital Unix machine as a POP3 server. He uses /usr/lib/mh/popd (and not popper ... ) , and sometimes a problem occurs at sending mail to his users . This message appears : pop: unable to open /var/spool/pop/tcheck 554 tcheck@pop service unavailable And no message will be send now . At this time , in the /var/spool/pop/ directory we can find a tcheck.lock file . If we try to connect with #telnet hostname 110 USER tcheck pass ******** ->unable to lock maildrop /var/spool/pop/tcheck A/ Sometimes after quiting the eudora program on the PC , the file .lock remains in the directory .. B/it seems that when the .lock file is present no mail comes in ... ->after deleting this file and restarting popd , it works. Any ideas Thanks for help... Albertino [Posted by WWW Notes gateway]
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| 9543.1 | Similar experience was resolved by using popper | SMURF::PBECK | Who put the bop in the hale-de-bop-de-bop? | Fri Apr 18 1997 10:35 | 16 |
This is not a definitive answer (not my department), but a similar
experience.
I use Eudora Pro for my mail client, and the admin group in ZKO used
to use some POP daemon other than popper (possibly the mh one, I
didn't notice). I had the same problem with hanging lock files
hanging up Eudora. I would just manually delete the lock file myself
which would clear things up. I finally got tired of this, installed
popper on my workstation, and redirected mail there. The problems
disappeared.
Admin has since switched over to popper, I switched back to the
central popd and have not seen the problem.
So, based on my limited personal experience, it sounds like the
problem is a bad implementation of popd.
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