ipop3d process locked

[Ezra Taylor]

What pop3 server are you using?  Try to kill the restarting the pop3 server.

On Nov 17, 2007 12:36 PM, Cosmin Curticapean <ccosmyn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello
>
> i have an issue with an email account: I am not able to access it. Looking
> into the sendmail log file, and the messages are these:
>
> Nov 17 19:27:43 XXXXXX ipop3d[20653]: pop3 service init from X.X.X.102
> Nov 17 19:27:43 XXXXXX ipop3d[20660]: Trying to get mailbox lock from
> process 20653
> Nov 17 19:27:57 XXXXXX ipop3d[20660]: Mailbox is open by another process,
> access is readonly
> Nov 17 19:27:57 XXXXXX ipop3d[20660]: Mailbox /var/spool/mail/XXX is
> locked,
> will override in 300 seconds...
>
> when i run top command, i see this process:
>
> 16297 xxx 25   0 12852  12M  1544 R    96.6  1.2 559:27 ipop3d
>
> which is the process that locked the email account xxx.
>
> I've tried so far to kill the process, kill -9, killall ipop3d stop and
> start sendmail and xinetd but the process remains there. Can anyone give
> me
> an advice on how to stop that process? As you can see from the top
> command,
> its using 97% of the cpu also...
>
> Cosmin
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Ezra Taylor