Mail problem!

[Cecilia]

Hi, I'm in a hurry, I have a problem and I need your help.

I have a mail server and recently two users can't read their
mail. This message appears:

Could not log in to the mail server
The server responded:

being read already /usr/spool/mail/samis

please, enter a new password for user samis@...

So, please, did you ever have a problem like this? How can I resolve
it?

Thank you very much.

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[Rick Blake]

sounds like the account mailbox is locked by another process. I've seen
this with ipop3d left hanging for several minutes, or in fact the user *is*
reading their mail at another location, either on purpose, running another
client, or by proxy (un-authorized user, compromised account).

Darn. Find the offending process, stop it, and the box should be open for use.

Rick

[Ahsan Ali]

It could be that their connection was interrupted while they were accessing
their mailbox using pop - check with 'ps axu | grep <username>' for stale
connections when you get this error.

Kill the hung process if that is the case...

[makond...@my-deja.com]

What distribution of Linux are you using ? Most of Linux distributions
generate a lock file (e.g. lock.account, ... or /tmp/.pop/useraccount) when
an account is locked.

Manu.

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