[Dovecot] Error with 1.1 Beta

Jeff Grossman jeff at stikman.com
Sun Jan 20 18:51:29 EET 2008


Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 06:22 -0800, Jeff Grossman wrote:
>   
>> I am running the latest version of the 1.1 beta and just got the 
>> following error:
>>
>> Jan 17 06:20:13 apple dovecot: IMAP(jeff): 
>> rename(/home/jeff/Maildir/.Sent Items/dovecot.index.cache.lock, 
>> /home/jeff/Maildir/.Sent Items/dovecot.index.cache) failed: No such file 
>> or directory
>> Jan 17 06:20:13 apple dovecot: IMAP(jeff): file_dotlock_replace() failed 
>> with index cache file /home/jeff/Maildir/.Sent 
>> Items/dovecot.index.cache: No such file
>> or directory
>>
>> Is it something I should be concerned about?  I had just sent an e-mail 
>> about 30 seconds before that one which did not give the error.  I will 
>> see if I get the error again when I send this one.
>>     
>
> It means that the file got lost while it was still locked. It shouldn't
> happen. Although I've done several fixes since beta13 and there may have
> been something related to this. Do you use NFS?
>
>   
No, I do not use NFS.  Everything is on the local machine.

Jeff


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