On 6.1.2012, at 23.41, David Egbert wrote: > On 1/6/2012 2:16 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: >> On 6.1.2012, at 22.44, David Egbert wrote: >> >>> dovecot: imap([email protected]): Error: >>> readdir(/XXXX/XXXX/XXXXXXXXX/XXXXX/XXXXXXX/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/XXX) failed: >>> Too many levels of symbolic links >> You have a symlink loop. Either a symlink that points to itself or one of >> the parent directories. >> > I thought that might have been the case, but I checked and there are no > symlinks in that directory, or any of the directories above it in the path. > All of the directories and files were created by dovecot. I didn't notice > this in the logs until recently. The files are stored on an NFS Raid if that > makes any difference.
Well, then.. You have a bit too many Xes in there for me to guess which readdir() is the one failing. I guess it's /new or /cur for a Maildir? Anyway, readdir() is failing with ELOOP. Does it always fail with "Too many levels of symbolic links" or is it sometimes different? This sounds like a bug in Linux NFS client code. You can reproduce this always with this one user's Maildir? Can you do "ls" in the directory?
