Dear all, Two days ago, my ldap server (for authentication) crashed and I had to set up a new one. Everything works fine except the mailbox for one user (let's name him debugger). When I try to access his mail whatever way, dovecot complains about "Error: maildir_file_do(........): Filename keeps changing" For example, a command "doveadm copy -u debugger at boontje.net Archive mailbox Netspar" returns doveadm(debugger at boontje.net): Error: maildir_file_do(/var/mail/vmail/boontje.net/debugger/mail/Netspar/cur/1423052681.M610997P2829.mail,S=1499407,W=1518981:2,S): Filename keeps changing doveadm(debugger at boontje.net): Error: Copying message UID 1 from 'Netspar' failed: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2016-05-24 13:19:58] doveadm(debugger at boontje.net): Error: maildir_file_do(/var/mail/vmail/boontje.net/debugger/mail/Netspar/cur/1447239217.M843201P13440.mail,S=6052999,W=6131730:2,RSa): Filename keeps changing doveadm(debugger at boontje.net): Error: Copying message UID 2 from 'Netspar' failed: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2016-05-24 13:19:58] doveadm(debugger at boontje.net): Error: maildir_file_do(/var/mail/vmail/boontje.net/debugger/mail/Netspar/cur/1447239226.M993616P13440.mail,S=13920,W=14288:2,S): Filename keeps changing doveadm(debugger at boontje.net): Error: Copying message UID 3 from 'Netspar' failed: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2016-05-24 13:19:58] doveadm(debugger at boontje.net): Error: maildir_file_do(/var/mail/vmail/boontje.net/debugger/mail/Netspar/cur/1449826302.M51386P11767.mail,S=1252017,W=1268393:2,RS): Filename keeps changing doveadm(debugger at boontje.net): Error: Copying message UID 4 from 'Netspar' failed: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2016-05-24 13:19:58] It does this on ALL mailboxes of this user and only this user. Other users give no problems. Accessing the mails via a mail client (Roundcube, Thunderbird, etc...) give the same error. Dovecot runs on a virtual machine and the mailboxes are stored via a CIFS-share on a NAS. I rebooted both machines, checked the filesystem (no errors), CIFS-share, directories and mail files are readable and writeable by dovecot user (vmail on the mail server). The mails are intact, cat <filename> shows the full mail. I'm baffled, any suggestions? Kind regards, Ward Romp The configuration etc.... =============================================== # 2.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 4.2.0-36-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS cifs auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes listen = * mail_home = /var/mail/vmail/%d/%n mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/vmail/%d/%n/mail:LAYOUT=fs managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave namespace inbox { inbox = yes location mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/conf.d/ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_after = /var/mail/vmail/sieve-after sieve_before = /var/mail/vmail/sieve-before sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap sieve service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/private/mail.boontje.net-chain.crt ssl_cipher_list = ECDH+AESGCM:DH+AESGCM:ECDH+AES256:DH+AES256:ECDH+AES128:DH+AES:ECDH+3DES:DH+3DES:RSA+AES:RSA+3DES:!ADH:!AECDH:!MD5:!DSS ssl_client_ca_dir = /etc/ssl/certs ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mail.boontje.net.key userdb { args = uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/var/mail/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes driver = static } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_max_userip_connections = 10 } protocol lda { deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$ mail_plugins = sieve postmaster_address = webmaster at boontje.net quota_full_tempfail = yes rejection_reason = Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r