On 16 Nov 2019, at 12:41, Michael Ludwig frozenyoghurt2010@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I'm just setting up a new dovecot system and wonder why I get this error. On another dovecot system this works with no problems.

Log entry when exiting MUA Thunderbird:

Nov 16 20:16:35 myhostname dovecot: imap(info@mydomain.de): Error: autoexpunge: Couldn't create dovecot.autoexpunge.lock lock: file_create_locked(/var/mail/vmail/mydomain.de/info//dovecot.autoexpunge.lock) failed: safe_mkstemp(/var/mail/vmail/mydomain.de/info//dovecot.autoexpunge.lock) failed: No such file or directory

Do you have mail_home set? And do you have the right permissions on it?

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Is this double slash between /info//dovecot.auto... okay?

Not usually, no.

I believe there should be a "Mailbox" in between?

Depends on your setup, but ~/Maildir/ is usual though certainly not required.

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