Hi all,

This is probably a silly question, but I have a problem. I've had to move my users maildirs from:

maildir:/home/%u/.Maildir

To

maildir:/data/mail/%u

I've updated the MTA to put mail to the correct place and it's working fine. I've also changed the dovecot.conf file and restarted dovecot and I thought that would be all I needed to do.

However, the users are getting lots of error messages, and looking in the relevant logs shows lots of entries like:

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

(Sorry for changing usernames and hostname, but I'm neurotic about that kind of thing)

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

Any help greatly appreciated,

Mark Lidstone IT and Network Support Administrator

BMT SeaTech Ltd Grove House, Meridians Cross, 7 Ocean Way Ocean Village, Southampton. SO14 3TJ. UK Tel: +44 (0)23 8063 5122
Fax: +44 (0)23 8063 5144

E-Mail: mailto:mark.lidstone@bmtseatech.co.uk Website: www.bmtseatech.co.uk

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-----Original Message----- From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss@iki.fi] Sent: 28 September 2004 00:09 To: dovecot@spam.turbolink.net Cc: dovecot@procontrol.fi Subject: [Dovecot] Re: More test46 feedback

On 28.9.2004, at 00:29, dovecot@spam.turbolink.net wrote:

Here's another error message I just started getting with test46:

Error: POP3(test2): file mbox-lock.c: line 493 (mbox_lock): assertion failed: (lock_type == F_RDLCK ||ibox->mbox_lock_type != F_RDLCK)

Could you get gdb backtrace from this? I know this happens when you try to copy a message into the same mbox, but why would anyone do that?

I haven't seen the combined X-Status/X-UID nor the other log corruption "Append with UID xxx, but next_uid = xxx" that I saw earlier.

That's good.