[Dovecot] subdir disappeared

[Luigi Rosa]

Timo Sirainen said the following on 16/6/2007 0:50:

>> Jun 12 11:28:00 mail dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<nadia>, 
>> method=PLAIN, rip=10.10.10.103, lip=10.10.10.254
>> Jun 12 11:53:59 mail dovecot: IMAP(nadia): 
>> inotify_add_watch(/var/spool/mail/nadia/new) failed: No such file or 
>> directory

 > Is /var/spool/mail/nadia supposed to be a maildir or a mbox?

maildir
It is a mail dir sice january 3rd and works fine everyday, with the exception of 
few events like the one I described.

> Show
> dovecot -n output?

# dovecot -n
# /etc/dovecot.conf
base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/
syslog_facility: local5
ssl_disable: yes
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_greeting: Ready.
login_greeting_capability: yes
login_processes_count: 5
verbose_proctitle: yes
mail_extra_groups: mail
mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/mail/%u/
maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes
imap_client_workarounds: outlook-idle tb-extra-mailbox-sep delay-newmail
auth default:
   passdb:
     driver: pam
     args: dovecot
   passdb:
     driver: shadow
   userdb:
     driver: passwd



The filesystem es ext3 mounted on a software Linux RAID1 partition.

Dovecot has been compiled with
./configure --with-shadow -with-pam --without-ssl --disable-ipv6 --with-pop3d 
--sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var




Ciao,
luigi

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