[Dovecot] failed: Too many levels of symbolic links

[David Egbert]

On 1/6/2012 3:30 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 7.1.2012, at 0.10, David Egbert wrote:
>
>>> Anyway, readdir() is failing with ELOOP. Does it always fail with "Too many levels of symbolic links" or is it sometimes different? This sounds like a bug in Linux NFS client code. You can reproduce this always with this one user's Maildir? Can you do "ls" in the directory?
>>>
>> Sorry about the X's...  it is a client directory.  We support many domains and their privacy is paramount.   You are correct it is in the /cur directory.  I can LS all of directories without problems.  This user has 10+Gb in his mail box spread across 352 subscribed folders.  As for the logs it is always the directory, always the same error.
> Try the attached test program. Run it as: ./readdir /path/to/Maildir/cur
>
> Does it also give non-zero error?
>
I ran it, and it returned: readdir() errno = 0
The user backed up their data and then removed the folder from the 
server.  The error is now gone so I am assuming there was some corrupt 
file in the directory.  Thanks for all of the help.

David Egbert
Paperclip Systems, LLC

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