From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 19 00:59:34 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F93D16A41C for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:59:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dkelly@hiwaay.net) Received: from smtp.knology.net (smtp.knology.net [24.214.63.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B01D943D46 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:59:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dkelly@hiwaay.net) Received: (qmail 3276 invoked by uid 0); 19 Jul 2005 00:59:32 -0000 Received: from user-69-73-60-132.knology.net (HELO ?10.0.0.6?) (69.73.60.132) by smtp7.knology.net with SMTP; 19 Jul 2005 00:59:32 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v733) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: FreeBSD Questions From: David Kelly Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:59:27 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.733) Cc: Subject: Courier-IMAPD problem with fam(d) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:59:34 -0000 /var/log/maillog is spayed full of the following message repeated hundreds or thousands of times. No matter if the courier-imap port is with or with out FAM. Jul 18 19:44:19 Grumpy imapd: Failed to create cache file: maildirwatch (dkelly) Jul 18 19:44:19 Grumpy imapd: Error: Input/output error Jul 18 19:44:19 Grumpy imapd: Check for proper operation and configuration Jul 18 19:44:19 Grumpy imapd: of the File Access Monitor daemon (famd). The only client used is Apple's Mail.app. This has been going on for the past year. Sometimes in spite of the error log messages all seems to be Good Enough. Then other times Mail.app can't hold a connection. Elsewhere found a suggestion that the following in my FreeBSD-hosted Maildir would help, but has not: % cd Maildir % ln -s . .INBOX % ln -s . .INBOX. Just now when I deleted the above symbolic links, my mail downloaded altho there is another of the above imapd error messages in maillog, apparently one for each mailbox message downloaded. When ever Mail.app gets stuck it seems like all is needed is for the mailbox directory to change somehow, or a message or two downloaded, deleted or something, then Mail.app is perfectly happy. Bulk in maillog is nothing but a nuisance. Failed connection is worse. How the heck is fam supposed to be configured? Or how the heck can I get rid of it? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.