dovecot - Aug 2012 - imap(xxxxxxxx): Error: opendir(/user/xxxxxxxx/.imap) failed: No such file or directory

hello

I see this message in the dovecot error log every time
a user connect to IMAP service.

imap(xxxxxxxx): Error: opendir(/user/xxxxxxxx/.imap) failed: No such 
file or directory

In the server's config I've this

mail_location = 
mbox:%h/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/spool/dovecot/index/%u

As we can see INDEX files are not living in user's home directories but 
in  /var/spool/dovecot/index/%u
so why this error message ?

BTW : users access normally to their IMAP folders , I'm just curious 
about this message
           which is not marked as warning but error

Thank you

Please help us help you.

Always provide bare minimum system/config/error details, like:

Full doveconf -n output
(don't 'describe' your config with a one line copy/paste from some 
random config file)

Full (untrimmed) logs exhibiting the problem

On 2012-08-01 3:19 AM, Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet at esiee.fr>
wrote:
> hello
>
> I see this message in the dovecot error log every time
> a user connect to IMAP service.
>
> imap(xxxxxxxx): Error: opendir(/user/xxxxxxxx/.imap) failed: No such
> file or directory
>
> In the server's config I've this
>
> mail_location >
mbox:%h/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/spool/dovecot/index/%u
>
> As we can see INDEX files are not living in user's home directories but
> in /var/spool/dovecot/index/%u
> so why this error message ?
>
> BTW : users access normally to their IMAP folders , I'm just curious
> about this message
> which is not marked as warning but error
-- 

Best regards,

Charles