[Dovecot] Too many open files, etc.

F. Even dovecotlists at elitists.org
Mon Mar 7 12:22:12 EET 2005


Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 11:39 +0100, Martin Preen wrote:
>
>>+) in general dovecot saves a lot of NFS-bandwidth compared
>>to UW-imap. Thats what I was looking for. But there also seems
>>to be a problem with large inboxes (> 10 MB) and/or large
>>attachments. Is this right ?
>>
>>One user currently gets this error from Pine when accessing a
>>large attachment: MAIL FOLDER "INBOX" CLOSED DUE TO ACCESS ERROR.
>>AFAIK this error is related to some timeout problem.
>>Has anyone seen this (and a solution for it) ?
> 
> 
> Hmm. No idea really.. But I'd rather not spend time trying to figure out
> 0.99.x bugs. If this is reproduceable with 1.0-tests / dovecot-stable
> I'll look at it.

I've seen this in 1.0-test, but I've only seen it when Pine is accessing 
a mailbox, then an IMAP session with Dovecot as the server is opened. 
So...I guess the answer is simple, don't access the mbox via imap while 
using Pine.  ;-)

Frank



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