[PLUG] Error opening or locking INBOX

Billy Dimaculangan bmdimaculangan at bhpi.com.ph
Wed Aug 6 03:35:03 UTC 2003


"Error opening or locking INBOX" problem keeps on coming back. is there a
patch or a fix for this problem?


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>-----Original Message-----
>From: plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org
>[mailto:plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org]On Behalf Of Steven A. Adams
>Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 9:32 AM
>To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
>Subject: Re: [PLUG] Error opening or locking INBOX
>
>
>On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 17:39, Billy Dimaculangan wrote:
>> i'm encountering "Error opening or locking INBOX" in our maillog. email
>> users cannot access their inbox from their windows machine.
>what i'm doing
>> is quickly remove their account and add it back.  my question is
>why is this
>> happening in some of our users?  does removing and adding it
>back again the
>> solution for this problem?
>>
>
>Removing and adding back the user probably equates to changing the UID
>for that user. Check the permissions on the effected users home and/or
>mail directory and make sure that the user in question still owns it.
>When you recreate users you should use the -u option in useradd to make
>sure that the UID remains the same for the new user.
>
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