[Dovecot] Erroneous operation not permitted when deleting mailbox with mdbox

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Aug 1 14:22:03 EEST 2012


On 1.8.2012, at 11.13, Nikolai Schupbach wrote:

> I'm seeing the following error in our logs when removing mailboxes (we are using mdbox and dovecot 2.1.8):
> 
> Aug  1 20:03:36 msgsrv dovecot: imap(test at test.com): Error: stat(/mailstore/domains/test.com/test/mdbox/mailboxes/Spam) failed: Operation not permitted
> Aug  1 20:03:36 msgsrv dovecot: imap(test at test.com): Mailbox deleted: Spam
> 
> When I run truss against the process it appears the error relates to attempted unlink of a directory, not a stat of it, as reported by the log. However the mailbox does appear to be deleted fine, so it appears to be an erroneous error. 

Fixed: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/8029f1b4afd0




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