[Dovecot] Folder creation errors

[Mark E. Mallett]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 06:29:11PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 22:50, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
> > i.e. I get "internal error" if there is no path component in the
> > folder name.  Is this a problem?  I would guess that "internal error"
> > is always a problem :-)
> 
> Yes .. And log file should show exactly what the error message is. I
> guess you've some weird settings. :)

Jun 14 12:21:09 iridium mem[118]: imap(dummydummy): mkdir_parents(/usr2/users/username/) failed: Is a directory

dovecot.conf has:

default_mail_env = mbox:~/:INBOX=%h/Mailbox

Probably not so much a weird setting as a weird artifact in BSD/OS:

    mkdir x
    mkdir x
       returns EEXIST
    mkdir x/
       returns EISDIR

This is a long-standing thorn..

if I change mkdir-parents.c to check for EISDIR as well as EEXIST it
fixes the problem.  Can you add that to the official version?

Sorry for not checking that myself.

-mm-