Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:36:41 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6vesd=E1n_G=E1bor?= <gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Courier-IMAPD problem with fam(d) Message-ID: <42DCE5C9.2060002@t-hosting.hu> In-Reply-To: <D7EA0FAB-5F67-47AD-AC90-39DC8B01440D@hiwaay.net> References: <D7EA0FAB-5F67-47AD-AC90-39DC8B01440D@hiwaay.net>
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David Kelly wrote: > /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? The mail/courier-imap port installs famd as a dependency, but You have to manually configure and start it. Take a look at /usr/local/etc/fam.conf. Anyway, this is a deficiency in the new versions of courier-imap. There isn't some kind of --without-fam configure options, the new versions require fam. As for me, I had the same problem with it. My maillog was full of junk, but I didn't notice any kind of error. I could use imap well, but the junk in my log was very annoying, so I applied a little hack. I did "make patch" and found the logging part of the source code and simply deleted those lines. Now, I had a well-working mail system and there isn't such junk in my maillog. Cheers, Gábor Kövesdán
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