That Yikes! error message looks like something inside vpopmail.
That's probably the best place to track it down.
Ken Jones
markus stalder - mails + media wrote:
>
> hey all,
>
> this mail concerns the behaviour of the qmail imap daemon together
> with vpopmail 3.4.11 under qmail 1.03 on a suse linux system.
>
> i've come around some problem with the shared folders system under
> courier. i can have shared maildirs and they're doing their job very
> well - the problem is that as soon as i've subscribed to a shared
> folder qmail isn't able to deliver mail locally to my maildir anymore.
> the error message (from the maillog) is as follows:
>
>
>Unable_to_link_tmp_to_new_(#4.3.0)/Yikes!_Could_create_but_can't_delete_temporary_file!!
> ENOENT:_path_doesn't_exist/
>
> i think i've already located the (supposed) error - as soon as i
> remove the symlink 'shared' (which points to vpopmail/domains/shared_folders/.test)
>from
> 'vpopmail/domains/abc.de/abc/Maildir/shared-folders/test/test') everything
> works perfect again, no errors, mail gets sent, no complaints from qmail.
>
> of course i've already tried all chmod's in every possible directory,
> i gave the files in all responsible shared-folder-directories to
> the vpopmail user, to the qmail users, but nothing brought a change yet,
> the error message still remains and mail doesn't get sent to the user's
> inbox.
>
> does qmail have a problem with symlinks? the directory does exist and also
> i don't see why qmail bothers to read this link, it shouldn't pay
> attention to it at all should it?
>
> i also tried to make the shared folder read-only as well as read+write,
> and the error occurs in both modes. it really seems to be all about the
> 'shared'-link and i really don't get what's so wrong with it or why
> qmail actually bothers to read (or tries to do something odd with) it.
>
> also, the first part of the error message 'Unable_to_link_tmp etc.'
> wasn't there on some earlier tries, it was just 'Can't_create_tempfile'
> and then the remaining line.
>
> that's it, i really hope you've already come across that error and know
> a way to fix it or change/modify whatever is possible to make it work.
>
> thanks alot for your time, i still think qmail together with vpopmail
> and courier rules :)
>
> regards,
>
> markus stalder
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
