dovecot - Aug 2005 - lock file

Hi

1 user has a file username.lock with this inside 30457:proteus2a.obantec.net

proteus2a.obantec.net is the server.

no mail is being delivered to username (mbox style in
/var/spool/mail/username)

there looks to be 66+ emails in the queue "sending" most to his
account.

Dovecot 1.0 stable on FC3

Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Waters" <simonw at zynet.net>
To: "Obantec Support" <support at obantec.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] lock file

> On Thursday 18 Aug 2005 12:19 pm, Obantec Support wrote:
<snip>
>
> What is your question?
>
> Yes it is a lock file, by default (if you must use mbox) Dovecot overrides
> them in 30s I believe.
>
> Either work out if it is genuine, and delete it if not.
>
> You only need to use dotlock locking if you are using NFS (or similar),
and
> using "mbox". Hopefully this only affects a small number of big
mail
servers,
> and most of them would presumably switch to maildir when deploying dovecot
> over NFS anyway.
>
>
Hi

not using NFS. my question is what is it, why is it happening and how do i
get my users mbox working again.

as soon as i delete it it comes back with 1B contents 0

Mark