Dovecot 1.1.8-0_85.el5

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?

Feb 9 20:05:58 mailserver dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=user@example.com, 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 directory Feb 9 20:05:58 mailserver dovecot: IMAP(user@example.com): unlink(/var/spool/mail/example.com/user/Maildir/cur/new:2,ST) failed: Is a directory Feb 9 20:05:58 mailserver dovecot: IMAP(user@example.com): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=66/623

From here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers#homedirs I suspect it's a problem with access to the home directory. The users have a home directory: /var/spool/mail/domain/user (or at least that's where Maildir ends up). vuser has 700 access to that entire structure (everything under var/spool/mail/). Users log in with mysql accounts.

/etc/passwd: ... dovecot:x:97:97:dovecot:/usr/libexec/dovecot:/sbin/nologin postfix:x:89:89::/var/spool/postfix:/sbin/nologin vacation:x:65501:65501::/var/spool/vacation:/sbin/nologin vuser:x:1015:105:,,,:/home/vuser:/bin/false ...

dovecot-sql.conf driver = mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=postfix user=postfix password=xxxxxxx

default_pass_scheme = MD5-CRYPT password_query = SELECT username, domain, password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND domain = '%d' AND active = '1'

user_query = SELECT 1015 as uid, 105 as gid, '/var/spool/mail/%d/%n' as home, 'maildir:/var/spool/mail/%d/%n/Maildir' as mail, concat('*:storage=', quota, 'B') as quota_rule FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND domain = '%d' and active = '1'

dovecot -n # 1.1.8: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-92.el5 i686 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga) ext3 ssl_cert_file: /etc/httpd/certs/example_invtitle_com.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/httpd/certs/example.com.key.no.password login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_uid: 1015 mail_gid: 105 mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/mail/%d/%n/Maildir mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: static socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vuser group: vuser plugin: quota: maildir quota_rule: *:storage=102400000 quota_rule2: Trash:storage=100M

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