Courier-IMAPD problem with fam(d)

[David Kelly]

/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?

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net
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