[Dovecot] failed: Too many levels of symbolic links

[Timo Sirainen]

On 7.1.2012, at 0.10, David Egbert wrote:

>> Anyway, readdir() is failing with ELOOP. Does it always fail with "Too many levels of symbolic links" or is it sometimes different? This sounds like a bug in Linux NFS client code. You can reproduce this always with this one user's Maildir? Can you do "ls" in the directory?
>> 
> Sorry about the X's...  it is a client directory.  We support many domains and their privacy is paramount.   You are correct it is in the /cur directory.  I can LS all of directories without problems.  This user has 10+Gb in his mail box spread across 352 subscribed folders.  As for the logs it is always the directory, always the same error.

Try the attached test program. Run it as: ./readdir /path/to/Maildir/cur

Does it also give non-zero error?

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