[Dovecot] subdir disappeared

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 16:02 +0200, Luigi Rosa wrote:
> I have an installation that sometimes acts strangely:
> 
> 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
> Jun 12 11:53:59 mail dovecot: IMAP(nadia): 
> stat(/var/spool/mail/nadia/new) failed: No such file or directory
> Jun 12 11:56:14 mail last message repeated 5 times
> Jun 12 11:58:14 mail last message repeated 2 times
> Jun 12 12:00:14 mail last message repeated 2 times
> Jun 12 12:02:14 mail last message repeated 2 times
> Jun 12 12:02:14 mail dovecot: IMAP(nadia): 
> stat(/var/spool/mail/nadia/new) failed: No such file or directory

These pretty clearly say that the new/ directory doesn't exist. I've no
idea why, but since that's the INBOX I can't think of a way Dovecot
could cause this.

> Jun 12 12:03:23 mail dovecot: IMAP(nadia): Disconnected: Logged out
> .....
> Jun 13 12:08:01 mail dovecot: IMAP(nadia): 
> unlink(/var/spool/mail/nadia/cur/:2,ST) failed: Is a directory

And here you for some reason have a "cur/:2,ST" directory. This sounds
like the new/ directory was renamed to cur/:2,

Dovecot recreates the new/ directory again so this problem fixed itself
the next time the mailbox was selected. Except the :2,ST directory
doesn't get deleted unless you delete it manually.
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