Email: imapd: chdir .maildir: No such file or directory

Email: imap & pop3 issues ".maildir: No such file or directory"?

Hi,

I am using Gentoo and ISPConfig v2 and installed as per the perfect sever - Gentoo 2007.0 guide and have almost got everything working.

One of those things not working is my email. As yet I have not been able to make a succesful connection using an email client like Outlook Express (any links to client guides welcome!) or webmail.

The only webmail I have tried is SquirrelMail which reported to install correctly and I can access the login page but I recieve the error:

ERROR:
ERROR: IMAP server closed the connection.
Server responded:* BYE [ALERT] Fatal error: .maildir: No such file or directory

If I check my logs I see the following entries:

Code:

Aug  4 18:16:37 wellesley imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]
Aug  4 18:16:37 wellesley imapd: LOGOUT, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]
Aug  4 18:17:11 wellesley imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]
Aug  4 18:17:11 wellesley imapd: chdir .maildir: No such file or directory

Does anyone have any suggestions? I have already sent an email to my account and can see my user account directory in /var/www/web9/user and the Maildir has been created automatically within it. I have even tried creating a soft link (ln -s Maildir .maildir) for .maildir to Maildir but to no avail.

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong or what I can check? Any suggestions appreciated.

Many thanks.

 

Hi Till,

Thanks for your reply. I forgot to say that I have already checked / enabled this.

Anything else I can check?

Cheers.

 

Hi,

Maildir is created when a user receives his first mail, so if user has not received any mail after you configured it on server, there would not be Maildir. You just need to send a welcome mail to the user, as soon as he receives it, respective Maildir would be created.

Dipesh

 

Hi dipeshmehta, thanks for your reply.

It's weird because I've heard that a few times now but even though emails have been received no .maildir directories seem to get created. Only a Maildir link does. It's not a major issues, manually creating the soft links (as long a you put it in the right directory!) does the job.

I also needed to add my LAN IP addresses to the mynetworks variable in /etc/postfix/main.cf and that was it, my email was working!



Thanks for all help received.

 

Automate '.maildir' soft-link to Mairdir

Hi all,

Does anyone know how I can automate the creation of a '.maildir' soft-link pointing to the 'Maildir' folder within the same directory? For some reason this does not happen. I think this is a Gentoo specific issue (http://bugs.gentoo.org/52076)?

Manually creating one everytime anyone creates a new email address is a bit of a bane actually!!

Cheers!