[Dovecot] Apparent corruption of dovecot.uidlist

[AnneWilson]

On Friday 25 September 2009 17:13:33 Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 9/25/2009, AnneWilson (anne at lydgate.org) wrote:
> > unlink(/home/david/Maildir/cur/cur:2,ST) failed: Is a directory
> 
> There a thread here discussing this error:
> 
> http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-February/037280.html
> 
> Bottom line:
> 
> "This means that "new" and "cur" directories were created to either
> Maildir/cur/ or Maildir/new/ and since there should be only messages
> Dovecot tried to handle them as files/messages. Dovecot didn't create
> those directories. You probably misconfigured some other program at
> some point which created those (or you did it manually)."
> 
> So, if you have /cur/cur and /new/new directories, delete the second
> level ones...
> 
Thanks for the explanation.  It never occurred to look inside /cur.  I 
definitely didn't create that manually.  David would not know how to.  And the 
strange thing is that from the logs it happened about 10 days before I did the 
distro upgrade - a time when I can think of no reason why anything at all 
would change.  I don't like mysteries, but I may have to accept that this is 
one.

> Upgrading would probably be a good idea while you're at it... 1.0.7 is
> very old...
> 
That doesn't surprise me, but having chosen to run with an enterprise level 
distro I think it's probably safer to stick with their version.

Thanks for the speedy help.  I've spent most of the day on this, and it's 
great to know it's resolved at last.

Anne
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