I am using dovecot 2.2 with plesk 12 and I have made no modifications to the dovecot config.

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Logwatch reports the messages below. The errors don't seem to appear for every imap connect as can be seen from the number of deliveries and successful logins. So what makes dovecot fail sometimes to create the /tmp/dovecot.imap?

Dovecot Deliveries: 19 Dovecot IMAP and POP3 Successful Logins: 106 Dovecot disconnects: 72

**Unmatched Entries** dovecot: message repeated 4 times: [ service=imap, user=tester@example.com, ip=[::1]. Error: Temp file creation to /tmp/dovecot.imap. failed: No such file or directory]: 1 Time(s) dovecot: message repeated 5 times: [ service=imap, user=tester@example.com, ip=[::1]. Error: Temp file creation to /tmp/dovecot.imap. failed: No such file or directory]: 1 Time(s) dovecot: service=imap, user=tester@example.com, ip=[::1]. Error: Temp file creation to /tmp/dovecot.imap. failed: No such file or directory: 10 Time(s) dovecot: service=imap, user=tester@example.com, ip=[::1]. Error: Temp file creation to /tmp/dovecot.imap. failed: No such file or directory: 1 Time(s) Maybe you are chrooting dovecot yourself? The chroot must contain /tmp directory. <<

If this was the case I would expect the error for every imap connection and not only sometimes. Nonetheless: How can I check the chroot settings? Peter