[Dovecot] Errors in log file

[Timo Sirainen]

On 16.12.2013, at 23.46, Christian Rößner <cr at sys4.de> wrote:

> Dec 16 17:21:55 imap(roessner@****): Error: stat(/srv/mail/virtual/*****/roessner/.dovecot.sieve/tmp) failed: Not a directory

This is why it's not a good idea to use home as the Maildir root directory. You can work around this by setting maildir_stat_dirs=yes (minor performance hit). A bigger problem comes if a user creates a "dovecot/sieve" folder.