[SOLVED] Error: istream-seekable: safe_mkstemp(/tmp/dovecot.imap.) failed

[Thomas Leuxner]

* Thomas Leuxner <tlx at leuxner.net> 2016.03.02 09:54:

> * Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> 2016.03.01 23:03:
> 
> > > I'm seeing these recently:
> > > 
> > > Feb 27 09:24:01 nihlus dovecot: imap(tlx at leuxner.net): Error: istream-seekable: safe_mkstemp(/tmp/dovecot.imap.) failed: No such file or directory
> > 
> > You don't have a /tmp directory or imap is chrooted somewhere where there is no /tmp?..

Finally got down to the issue. The messages occur if the systemd-*service temporary directory gets deleted inside /tmp

$l -d systemd*
drwx------ 3 root root 60 Sep  5 09:29 systemd-private-37bbda70211940c593ef885fdfc1a1dc-dovecot.service-II7xjd

Case solved.
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