dovecot log shows: service=imap ... Error: Temp file creation to /tmp/dovecot.imap. failed: No such directory

[Aki Tuomi]

On 03.05.2017 08:14, Peter Kielbasiewicz wrote:
> I am using dovecot 2.2 with plesk 12 and I have made no modifications to the dovecot config.
> Logwatch reports the messages below.
> The errors don't seem to appear for every imap connect as can be seen from the number of deliveries and successful logins.
> So what makes dovecot fail sometimes to create the /tmp/dovecot.imap?
>
>
> Dovecot Deliveries: 19
>  Dovecot IMAP and POP3 Successful Logins: 106
>  Dovecot disconnects: 72
>
>  **Unmatched Entries**
>     dovecot: message repeated 4 times: [ service=imap, user=tester at example.com, ip=[::1]. Error: Temp file creation to /tmp/dovecot.imap. failed: No such file or directory]: 1 Time(s)
>     dovecot: message repeated 5 times: [ service=imap, user=tester at example.com, ip=[::1]. Error: Temp file creation to /tmp/dovecot.imap. failed: No such file or directory]: 1 Time(s)
>     dovecot: service=imap, user=tester at example.com, ip=[::1]. Error: Temp file creation to /tmp/dovecot.imap. failed: No such file or directory: 10 Time(s)
>     dovecot: service=imap, user=tester at example.com, ip=[::1]. Error: Temp file creation to /tmp/dovecot.imap. failed: No such file or directory: 1 Time(s)

Maybe you are chrooting dovecot yourself? The chroot must contain /tmp
directory.

Aki