[Dovecot] Maildir: directory instead of file

[Luigi Rosa]

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Timo Sirainen said the following on 09/09/08 16:45:

> I've no idea why you get directories there in the first place though.
> How often does the directory pop up there? I'd guess some kind of a
> misconfiguration.

I got this kind of problem on at least 5 different servers: Fedora (before) and
CentOS (now). With 1.0 the problem was occurring about 1 time a month, with next
releases it happened very rarely (say, once every 4 months).

> What OS and filesystem are you using? 

CentOS, file system ext3. Dovecot compiled with

./configure --with-shadow --with-pam --with-ssl=openssl --with-pop3d
- --disable-ipv6 --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --with-mysql

(but happened also in a configuration without '--with-mysql')

> What OS and filesystem are you using? Is it possible to create
> directories with empty names there? It really sounds like Dovecot sees
> an empty directory in new/ and then renames it to :2, in cur/. But what
> creates it into new/ in the first place

The MTA is Postfix, latest version. I don't know if it is possible to create
directory with empty names on ext3

>  I've no idea.

Neither have I. :)
I never told about this issue because I never had enough data to describe it.
Mybe this happened to someone else?





Ciao,
luigi

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