None of those are symlinks at all... There is settings in Dovecot to use harlinks to maintain names, but that option is turned off... still same issue, I think Dovecot might be using a symlink temporairily when moving the messages from the new folder to the cur folder. In IMAP messages that arrive go into /mail/mydomain.com/webmaster/new/ and then the mail server moves them into /mail/mydomain.com/webmaster/cur/ once you check for new messages... This issue only happens when I check email from one server and it moves it into the cur folder.... that is when the other server can not access it unless I restart glusterfs on the client having the access issue... > Brian Taber wrote: >> the issue is not happening with postfix, but with dovecot, the IMAP >> server. this is the error: >> >> Oct 22 10:37:16 anubis dovecot: IMAP(webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx): Maildir: >> Symlink destination doesn't exist: >> /mail/mydomain.com/webmaster/cur/1193063804.V19Iffa3eaM734452.anubis.mydomain.com:2, >> >> that is on the same server as postfix (1). whats strange is that file >> is >> not a symlink af far as I can see. The other mail server (webmail, 2) >> can >> access that exact file no problem, I even checked the glusterfs server, >> that file exists in the data folder and in the namespace folder. If I >> try >> to access that file manually with cat on server 1, I get permission >> denied, no other errors in logs. The only way to finally get access on >> server 1 is to unmount the glusterfs share and remount it. > > That's because the files are hard links (if linked), not symlinks. I > have a suspicion that the problem is linked to a symlink farther down in > the path. Are /mail, /mail/mydomain.com or /mail/mydomain.com/webmaster > symlinks? That might shed some light on what the error is really saying. > > > -- > > -Kevan Benson > -A-1 Networks >
