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

On Feb 9, 2009, at 8:44 PM, dovecot@corwyn.net wrote:

I'm seeing this set of messages repeat every 15 min. My best guess
is the user tried to delete an imap folder and is failing?

...

, method=PLAIN, rip=10.0.0.1, lip=192.168.250.80, TLS 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

Feb 9 20:05:58 mailserver dovecot: imap-login: Login: user= 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).

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.