Re: [Dovecot] Imap unlink "failed, is a directory".

At 09:55 PM 2/9/2009, Timo Sirainen wrote:

On Feb 9, 2009, at 8:44 PM, dovecot@corwyn.net wrote: Feb 9 20:05:58 mailserver dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=10.0.0.1, lip=192.168.250.80, TLS

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Feb 9 20:05:58 mailserver dovecot: IMAP(user@example.com): unlink(/ var/spool/mail/example.com/user/Maildir/cur/cur:2,ST) failed: Is a directory Feb 9 20:05:58 mailserver dovecot: IMAP(user@example.com): unlink(/ var/spool/mail/example.com/user/Maildir/cur/new:2,ST) failed: Is a directory

This means that "new" and "cur" directories were created to either Maildir/cur/ or Maildir/new/ and since there should be only messages Dovecot tried to handle them as files/messages. Dovecot didn't create those directories. You probably misconfigured some other program at some point which created those (or you did it manually).

I don't quite understand "since there should be only messages". Do you mean there should not be ./cur/cur folders, because there should only be files under cur? That makes sense, thanks!

So the solution is to just rmdir those directories away. They just shouldn't be there. If they come back, try to figure out what creates them.

will do, thank you!

Rick