> On 19/03/2020 10:10 mabi <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hello
> 
> I am running Dovecot 2.3.9 for IMAP access with RainLoop webmail and have 
> noticed for an account where I have some filters setup that I get the 
> following error messages in the dovecot log file:
> 
> Mar 17 19:02:50 mbox dovecot: imap([email protected])<10511><ubAzvhCh1N2yxeu/>: 
> Error: stat(/var/vmail/domain.tld/mail/.dovecot.sieve/tmp) failed: Not a 
> directory
> Mar 17 19:02:50 mbox dovecot: imap([email protected])<10511><ubAzvhCh1N2yxeu/>: 
> Error: stat(/var/vmail/domain.tld/mail/.dovecot.sieve.log/tmp) failed: Not a 
> directory
> 
> 
> This happens when I access the Dovecot mailbox server using an iphone. Also 
> on the iphone I see these "mail" folders but they are not really mail 
> folders... With Thunderbird as mail client it looks all good and I don't get 
> this error.
> 
> Is this normal? if not, how can I prevent this issue?
> 
> Regards,
> Mabi

This is usually prevented by not configuring mail_home and mail_location to 
same directory: 

mail_home=/var/vmail/%Ld/%Lu/
mail_location=maildir:~/mail

or something similar.

Aki

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