What pop3 server are you using? Try to kill the restarting the pop3 server. On Nov 17, 2007 12:36 PM, Cosmin Curticapean <ccosmyn@xxxxxxxxx> 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 > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- Ezra Taylor -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
