[Dovecot] Error in dovecot 2.0.13: "Too many levels of symbolic links"

[Timo Sirainen]

On 17.5.2012, at 0.20, Tom Pawlowski wrote:

> dovecot: imap(user1): Error: readdir(/u1/user1/Maildir/.AUTO-DELETED-SPAM/new) failed: Too many levels of symbolic links
..
> Create a new folder using alpine, save anywhere from 1000 to 10000 identical
> emails to the new folder. 
> 
> Change to that new folder, thus prompting the move from new to cur. The client
> receives the message and aborts the opening. Anywhere from 400-520 files are
> successfully moved each time. It takes numerous attempts to finally move
> all the files over--which I suspect some IMAP clients do, hence the
> inconsistent errors in production.


See if the attached patch makes any difference?

> I'm leaning towards some sort of bug on the NFS client level, as Timo

What NFS server are you using? Perhaps it's related to that.

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