[Dovecot] Moving mail dirs

[Timo Sirainen]

On 28.9.2004, at 16:08, Mark Lidstone wrote:

> Sep 28 14:03:36 <hostname> imap(<user1>): stat() failed with file
> /home/<user1>/.Maildir/new: No such file or directory
> Sep 28 14:03:36 <hostname> imap(<user2>): utime() failed with index 
> file
> /home/<user2>/.Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index: No such file or directory
>
> What have I missed?  Or am I not supposed to move maildirs once they're
> in use?

Restarting Dovecot doesn't kill the existing processes which are still 
using the old directories and since they're gone they begin 
complaining.

Correct way to do moving would be:

kill dovecot
killall imap
move directories
start dovecot
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