Permission problems I suppose.. You could try this yourself too:
yeah, permissions was the first thing I checked.
drwxrwx--- 2 arinbe users 4096 2006-10-28 18:03 cur -rwxr-xr-x 1 arinbe users 96 2007-06-28 22:43 dovecot-acl -rw-r----- 1 arinbe users 0 2006-10-28 16:42 dovecot-shared -rw-r----- 1 arinbe users 547 2006-10-28 16:42 dovecot-uidlist drwxrwx--- 2 arinbe users 4096 2006-10-28 16:42 Maildir -rw-r----- 1 arinbe users 0 2006-10-28 16:42 maildirfolder drwxrwx--- 2 arinbe users 4096 2006-10-28 16:42 new drwxrwx--- 2 arinbe users 4096 2006-10-28 16:42 tmp
I guess that 'Maildir" and 'maildirfolder' are leftover from Courier... probably should clean those out.
After this open the mailbox. You'll probably see the error.
Have you mounted the filesystem with noatime? This utime() should be done only with noatime mounts.
/dev/sda9 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
and unless I'm reading 'man mount' incorrectly:
defaults Use default options: rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser, and async.
I think this is a stock install. I usually don't muck around in fstab.
touch -a -d '10 hours ago' tmp
I tried that on this directory which happened earlier today Jul 3 12:14:24 giganta dovecot: IMAP(jhorner@arinbe.com): utime(/home/arinbe/Maildir/.contracts/tmp) failed: Operation not permitted
and nothing appeared in the mail.err log... it is so arbitrary... or I'm too stupid to see the connection.
Thanks,
Jim