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ukrainet

11-29-2004 06:25 AM

ERR Can't get lock mail box in use

ERR Can't get lock mail box in use answered TheBat.
Whether it can be connected to a virus or here a problem in the friend

sigsegv

11-29-2004 07:34 AM

Not familiar with TheBat, but chances are it's due to your mailbox having been in use and now there's a stale lockfile. Depending on the system (which might be helpful ... POP or IMAP and what server, etc), the lock file is probably in /var/mail/<mailboxname>.lock or something similar. It may be a dotfile too, so ls -la

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