Help with postfix
ok, my mailserver is borked and I can't figure out why. My mailbox is getting locked up and postfix can't write messages to it
heres the error message
to=<jim@xxxxxx>, orig_to=<xx@xxxx>, relay=local, delay=19, status=deferred (cannot access mailbox /var/mail/jim for user jim. unable to lock for exclusive access: Resource temporarily unavailable)
in /var/mail is a file called jim.lock - Everything I find on google says "just delete the lock file".
So, I stop postfix and imapd and delete the lock file. as soon as I start postfix again the lock is created, and the cycle continues. other email boxes work fine, just mine is getting locked up.
Any thoughts?
EDIT: I fixed it, at the cost of my mailbox though. I moved my mailbox to my home directory and had postfix create me a new one. all is working now.
heres the error message
to=<jim@xxxxxx>, orig_to=<xx@xxxx>, relay=local, delay=19, status=deferred (cannot access mailbox /var/mail/jim for user jim. unable to lock for exclusive access: Resource temporarily unavailable)
in /var/mail is a file called jim.lock - Everything I find on google says "just delete the lock file".
So, I stop postfix and imapd and delete the lock file. as soon as I start postfix again the lock is created, and the cycle continues. other email boxes work fine, just mine is getting locked up.
Any thoughts?
EDIT: I fixed it, at the cost of my mailbox though. I moved my mailbox to my home directory and had postfix create me a new one. all is working now.
