[Dovecot] Moving mail dirs

[Mark Lidstone]

Hi all,

I have a temporary fix in case anyone is reading the archives with the
same problem.  Link the old location to the new location.  E.g:

	mv /home/user/.Maildir /data/mail/user
	ln -s /data/mail/user /home/user/.Maildir

Still no idea why dovecot is still looking in the original folders
though.

Thanks,

Mark Lidstone
IT and Network Support Administrator

BMT SeaTech Ltd
Grove House, Meridians Cross, 7 Ocean Way
Ocean Village, Southampton.  SO14 3TJ. UK
Tel: +44 (0)23 8063 5122         
Fax: +44 (0)23 8063 5144

E-Mail:  mailto:mark.lidstone at bmtseatech.co.uk
Website: www.bmtseatech.co.uk
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Lidstone 
Sent: 28 September 2004 14:08
To: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: [Dovecot] Moving mail dirs


Hi all,

This is probably a silly question, but I have a problem.  I've had to
move my users maildirs from:

	maildir:/home/%u/.Maildir

To

	maildir:/data/mail/%u

I've updated the MTA to put mail to the correct place and it's working
fine.  I've also changed the dovecot.conf file and restarted dovecot and
I thought that would be all I needed to do.

However, the users are getting lots of error messages, and looking in
the relevant logs shows lots of entries like:

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

(Sorry for changing usernames and hostname, but I'm neurotic about that
kind of thing)

What have I missed?  Or am I not supposed to move maildirs once they're
in use?

Any help greatly appreciated,

Mark Lidstone
IT and Network Support Administrator

BMT SeaTech Ltd
Grove House, Meridians Cross, 7 Ocean Way
Ocean Village, Southampton.  SO14 3TJ. UK
Tel: +44 (0)23 8063 5122         
Fax: +44 (0)23 8063 5144

E-Mail:  mailto:mark.lidstone at bmtseatech.co.uk
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-----Original Message-----
From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss at iki.fi] 
Sent: 28 September 2004 00:09
To: dovecot at spam.turbolink.net
Cc: dovecot at procontrol.fi
Subject: [Dovecot] Re: More test46 feedback


On 28.9.2004, at 00:29, dovecot at spam.turbolink.net wrote:

> Here's another error message I just started getting with test46:
>
> Error: POP3(test2): file mbox-lock.c: line 493 (mbox_lock): assertion
> failed: (lock_type == F_RDLCK ||ibox->mbox_lock_type != F_RDLCK)

Could you get gdb backtrace from this? I know this happens when you try 
to copy a message into the same mbox, but why would anyone do that?

> I haven't seen the combined X-Status/X-UID nor the other log
> corruption "Append with UID xxx, but next_uid = xxx" that I saw 
> earlier.

That's good.