[Dovecot] Jul 06 13:00:50 dovecot: Warning: I/O leak: 806ef10 (36)

[William Blunn]

Dennis Clarke wrote:
> Jul 06 12:58:50 IMAP(dclarke): Error: mbox root directory can't be a file:
> /var/mail/dclarke/ (http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Mbox)
>
> So I figure I better go read that page again and see what I did wrong this
> time. I guess this is wrong :
>
>    mail_location: mbox:/var/mail/%u
>
> Even though that is where the mail actually is :
>
> # ls -lap /var/mail
> total 34
> drwxrwxrwt   3 root     mail           6 Jul  6 02:19 ./
> drwxr-xr-x  47 root     sys           47 May 30 02:52 ../
> drwxrwxr-x   2 root     mail           2 May 29 23:47 :saved/
> -rw-rw----   1 dclarke  mail           0 Jul  5 16:01 dclarke
> -rw-rw----   1 lucone   mail         657 Jul  2 17:55 lucone
> -rw-rw----   1 root     mail        8705 Jul  2 05:40 root

The first bit after "mbox:" says where the user's mail *directory* is.

So what you have said puts the *directory* at /var/mail/dclarke, which 
is obviously not what you meant.

Maybe you could try something like this:

mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

This exact parameter may not be exactly what you want finally, but it 
may be sufficient to get things working, then from there you can tune 
things to make it work how you want.

(Also I note you have a colon after "mail_location" rather than an 
equals. I don't know if this would be a problem but AFAIK the docs say 
to use an equals.)

There needs to be a per-user directory for (AFAIK):

1. Dovecot to store its indexes (needed for fast IMAP access)

2. Dovecot to store (IMAP) folders (in the case of "mbox", further mbox 
files) other than INBOX

Bill