[Dovecot] Moving mail dirs

[Mark Lidstone]

Ah!  My ignorance is outshone only by your helpfulness.  :)

Many thanks,

Mark Lidstone
IT and Network Support Administrator

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-----Original Message-----
From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss at iki.fi] 
Sent: 28 September 2004 16:14
To: Mark Lidstone
Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Moving mail dirs


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