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 What is a POP lock?

 
Answer
 
This usually happens because of one of the following reasons:

1. A piece of mail is corrupted
2. You have too much mail in your box
3. Someone sent you a large attachment
4. The email download was stopped by some interuption.

To correct this, do the following:

1. You will need to ftp to your site and go to the /var/spool/mail/ directory.

2. You will see a file called "admin" or whatever the POP account is named, and usually a file named ".admin.pop" This is the mail file for that account. Find which file has the data in it. One will be a zero byte file, the other will have data inside of it.

3. You will need to download the file with data inside in ASCII mode. Then open it up in a text editor to read the mail.

4. Also, delete both files off of the server once you have downloaded it. This will solve the problem.
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