Re: [Dovecot] Some help required - dovecot: IMAP(matthew): unlink(/home/matthew/Maildir/cur/new) failed: Operation not permitted
Hi
I hope you're not offended by posting a quote to the list... you sent the mail just to me.
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, matbic@gmail.com wrote:
Here here is an excerpt:
ls -l home/matthew/Maildir/cur
...
drwx------ 2 matthew matthew 512 Jul 30 17:48 cur:2,ST drwx------ 2 matthew matthew 512 Jul 31 06:55 new drwx------ 2 matthew matthew 512 Jul 30 18:21 tmp:2,ST
Is this to be expected or is this my problem?
These (in .../Maildir/cur) are your problem - someone created a Maildir underneath Maildir/cur, and dovecot or some other software considered the three directories messages, and goofed up.
Check your delivery recipes so that none deliver to .../Maildir/, if you find any, adjust them deliver to .../Maildir/ instead.
I'd suggest to:
cd /home/matthew/Maildir/cur # move potential messages out to the proper new/... directory # if mv complains about nonexistent .../*, all the better! mv 'cur:2,ST/'* 'new/'* 'tmp:2,ST/'* ../new/ # get rid of the bogus directories rmdir '???:2,ST/' new cd -
and see if that fixes the problem. If rmdir fails because there are hidden files, see what they are and where to move them, if the {cur,tmp}:2,ST or new are empty, fine, someone accidentally ran maildirmake with bogus arguments.
HTH Matthias
That's done it, all OK now. Thank you so much, you have made me very happy!!
There was a problem in the .procmailrc file.
Thanks again
matthew
2008/7/31 Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Hi
I hope you're not offended by posting a quote to the list... you sent the mail just to me.
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, matbic@gmail.com wrote:
Here here is an excerpt:
ls -l home/matthew/Maildir/cur
...
drwx------ 2 matthew matthew 512 Jul 30 17:48 cur:2,ST drwx------ 2 matthew matthew 512 Jul 31 06:55 new drwx------ 2 matthew matthew 512 Jul 30 18:21 tmp:2,ST
Is this to be expected or is this my problem?
These (in .../Maildir/cur) are your problem - someone created a Maildir underneath Maildir/cur, and dovecot or some other software considered the three directories messages, and goofed up.
Check your delivery recipes so that none deliver to .../Maildir/, if you find any, adjust them deliver to .../Maildir/ instead.
I'd suggest to:
cd /home/matthew/Maildir/cur # move potential messages out to the proper new/... directory # if mv complains about nonexistent .../*, all the better! mv 'cur:2,ST/'* 'new/'* 'tmp:2,ST/'* ../new/ # get rid of the bogus directories rmdir '???:2,ST/' new cd -
and see if that fixes the problem. If rmdir fails because there are hidden files, see what they are and where to move them, if the {cur,tmp}:2,ST or new are empty, fine, someone accidentally ran maildirmake with bogus arguments.
HTH Matthias
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Matthew Bickerton
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Matthias Andree