Re: [SOT] VSNL Mail woes...

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@xxxxxxx>]

On 08/04/01 11:22 +0530, Kingsly John spewed into the LI bitstream:

> One thing that I have noticed is that I get a invalid password message on
> VSNL's pop server but after an hour or so it gets resolved... never really
> tried to figure out what is the status of their SMTP at that time.
 
 Likely because of a stale lockfile (vsnl uses mbox mailboxes - which get
 locked if your pop3 download gets terminated / times out midway - these locks
 die out after a while)
 
 Their SMTP implementation is (mostly) postfix - that's quite stable.

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Suresh Ramasubramanian  <---->  mallet <at> efn dot org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin