Hi list!

I'm using Dovecot along with Postfix (with MySQL) and I'm having some curious error messages in the mail log. Everything runs normally and suddenly I start viewing messages like these:

Oct 12 14:24:23 dovecot: last message repeated 5 times Oct 12 14:25:23 dovecot: last message repeated 6 times Oct 12 14:26:23 dovecot: last message repeated 6 times Oct 12 14:27:23 dovecot: last message repeated 6 times Oct 12 14:29:22 mail dovecot: imap(nicolas@devels.es): Error: fstat() failed with file /home/vmail/devels.es/nicolas/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: No such file or directory Oct 12 14:30:23 dovecot: last message repeated 5 times Oct 12 14:31:23 dovecot: last message repeated 6 times Oct 12 14:33:22 mail dovecot: imap(nicolas@devels.es): Error: fstat() failed with file /home/vmail/devels.es/nicolas/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: No such file or directory Oct 12 14:34:23 dovecot: last message repeated 5 times Oct 12 14:35:23 dovecot: last message repeated 6 times Oct 12 14:36:01 mail dovecot: imap(nicolas@devels.es): Error: fstat() failed with file /home/vmail/devels.es/nicolas/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: No such file or directory

This file which Dovecot references to indeed exists, is accesible, etc. Once I get the first of these messages, the user stops receiving e-mails (the mail server keeps receiving them normally, though) until he restarts the mail client. Then the error msg is gone and he receives all their unreceived messages. This error appears in 6-12h. intervals once the user starts their client.

Version is 2.0.19, and dovecot -n is:

root@mail:~# dovecot -n # 2.0.19: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.2.0-32-generic-pae i686 Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ext4 disable_plaintext_auth = no log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir mailbox_idle_check_interval = 2 mins namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-master { mode = 0600 user = vmail } user = root } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/home/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes driver = static } protocol lda { auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master log_path = /home/vmail/dovecot-deliver.log postmaster_address = postmaster@devels.es } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv }

Thanks so much for any help!

Nicolás