Mailing List Archive: Maemo mail application blocks mail account

Maemo mail application blocks mail account

Feb 25, 2011, 1:02 AM

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Hi all,

I had this problem with my N810 too: whenever my N900 is online and
checks for mail regularly it seams as if it is blocking the account.
I'm using fetchmail on my laptop to retrieve mail and it complains
that:

fetchmail: Can't get lock. Mailbox in use
fetchmail: lock busy! Is another session active?
fetchmail: Lock-busy error on account@ddd.ddd
fetchmail: lock busy on server error while fetching from account@ddd.ddd

This is really annoying. Anyone here has an idea what might be causing this?

Thanks,

/Henrik
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Re: Maemo mail application blocks mail account [ In reply to ]

xavier.bestel at free

Feb 25, 2011, 1:25 AM

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On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 10:02 +0100, Henrik Frisk wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I had this problem with my N810 too: whenever my N900 is online and
> checks for mail regularly it seams as if it is blocking the account.
> I'm using fetchmail on my laptop to retrieve mail and it complains
> that:
>
> fetchmail: Can't get lock. Mailbox in use
> fetchmail: lock busy! Is another session active?
> fetchmail: Lock-busy error on account@ddd.ddd
> fetchmail: lock busy on server error while fetching from account@ddd.ddd
>
> This is really annoying. Anyone here has an idea what might be causing this?

Are you using POP3 by any chance ?
POP3's spec has a mandatory lock, so only one client can connect at the
same time.
But you shouldn't use POP, especially if you have multiple clients you
should use IMAP.

Xav

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Re: Maemo mail application blocks mail account [ In reply to ]

klaus-maemo at uxix

Feb 25, 2011, 1:37 AM

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On 25.02.11 10:02, Henrik Frisk wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I had this problem with my N810 too: whenever my N900 is online and
> checks for mail regularly it seams as if it is blocking the account.
> I'm using fetchmail on my laptop to retrieve mail and it complains
> that:

How do you check mails? IMAP? POP3? If you use pop3, switch to IMAP.

> fetchmail: Can't get lock. Mailbox in use
> fetchmail: lock busy! Is another session active?
> fetchmail: Lock-busy error on account@ddd.ddd
> fetchmail: lock busy on server error while fetching from account@ddd.ddd
>
> This is really annoying. Anyone here has an idea what might be causing this?

What Mailserver are you using?

-
Klaus
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Re: Maemo mail application blocks mail account [ In reply to ]

frisk.h at gmail

Feb 28, 2011, 12:01 AM

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Hi Klaus and Xavier,

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Klaus Umbach <klaus-maemo@uxix.de> wrote:
> On 25.02.11 10:02, Henrik Frisk wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I had this problem with my N810 too: whenever my N900 is online and
>> checks for mail regularly it seams as if it is blocking the account.
>> I'm using fetchmail on my laptop to retrieve mail and it complains
>> that:
>
> How do you check mails? IMAP? POP3? If you use pop3, switch to IMAP.
>
Thanks for the feedback. I'll switch to imap then.

/Henrik
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