Re: [Dovecot] problem with some mailboxes (failed: Is a directory)

On Jan 29, 2009, at 11:52 AM, mikie@x.org.pl wrote:

I have this problem with some mailboxes (actually Maildirs) on my
system. After some user's activity there is following information in dovecot
logs:

Jan 29 16:24:28 mailserv dovecot: IMAP(username): unlink(/var/spool/mail/imap/user/username/Maildir/cur/Sent:2,ST)
failed: Is a directory

Something has created a directory called Sent inside Maldir/cur or
Maildir/new. Dovecot treats it as a message and so it has added \Seen
and \Deleted flags to it. Dovecot didn't create the Sent directory,
look at other software/scripts you have.

There is one workaround I know which is:

rm /var/spool/mail/imap/user/username/Maildir/dovecot.index*

Delete the Sent* directory.