Ah! My ignorance is outshone only by your helpfulness. :)

Many thanks,

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-----Original Message----- From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss@iki.fi] Sent: 28 September 2004 16:14 To: Mark Lidstone Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Moving mail dirs

On 28.9.2004, at 16:08, Mark Lidstone wrote:

Sep 28 14:03:36 <hostname> imap(<user1>): stat() failed with file /home/<user1>/.Maildir/new: No such file or directory Sep 28 14:03:36 <hostname> imap(<user2>): utime() failed with index file /home/<user2>/.Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index: No such file or directory

What have I missed? Or am I not supposed to move maildirs once they're in use?

Restarting Dovecot doesn't kill the existing processes which are still using the old directories and since they're gone they begin complaining.

Correct way to do moving would be:

kill dovecot killall imap move directories start dovecot