sieve folders in maildir with imap: not a directory not fixed with maildir_stat_dirs = yes

[Christian Kivalo]

On 2017-05-31 15:09, David Gessel wrote:
> As my logs fill up with "imap(user at domain.com): Error:
> stat(/mail/doman.com/user//.dovecot.sieve/tmp) failed: Not a
> directory" errors, I followed the advice at
> https://wiki2.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home and
> https://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2016-June/104403.html and set in
> /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf
> 
> # By default LIST command returns all entries in maildir beginning with 
> a dot.
> # Enabling this option makes Dovecot return only entries which are 
> directories.
> # This is done by stat()ing each entry, so it causes more disk I/O.
> # (For systems setting struct dirent->d_type, this check is free and 
> it's
> # done always regardless of this setting)
> maildir_stat_dirs = yes
> 
> My mailbox format reads "mail_location =
> maildir:~:CONTROL=/var/no-quota/%u:INDEX=MEMORY"
> 
> The error is factually correct, but there is not .dovecot.sieve/tmp
> directory or file as .dovecot.sieve is a file (the head sieve script
> that calls the subordinate scripts out of the /sieve directory.
> 
> There is a tmp directory at /sieve/tmp/
> 
> drwxr-----    2 vmail  vmail     2B May 31 04:14 tmp
> 
> 
> Any hints as to why this isn't working?  It does seem like the right 
> answer.
The answer is in the wiki page you referred to:
"Home directory shouldn't be the same as mail directory with mbox or 
Maildir formats (but with dbox/obox it's fine)."

You should set mail_home (where for example the sieve script is saved 
to) to a different path than mail_location.

-- 
  Christian Kivalo